| Why Use a Command Line Instead of Windows? [O'Reilly] |
Nov. 16, 2001
Jerry Peek, coauthor of Learning the Unix Operating System explains why a little command line programming can go a long way, in this article published by the O'Reilly Network. Peek writes . . .
" 'Aren't command lines for dinosaur MS-DOS users and wizard system administrators?,' you might ask. 'Windows are so much easier!' "
"Windows are easy -- and useful in a lot of cases . . . But . . ."
"Years ago, I took a class on computer user-interface design. Some of my professor's words have stayed with me since then. One characteristic of a user-friendly system, he told us, is that it does what the user wants. In other words, the most user-friendly system isn't necessarily the simplest one . . ."
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