From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8de7eedad50552f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-fusi.netcologne.de!151.189.20.20.MISMATCH!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada bench : count words Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <87vf7n5njs.fsf@code-hal.de> <423f5813$0$9224$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <18arnvu705ly4$.1wz6ybz1jt70y$.dlg@40tude.net> <1q9cx4jt7802s.k45m6mcntl87$.dlg@40tude.net> <460oxs2p0hbc.yjqxjeasx37r.dlg@40tude.net> <1spfhtlo4ya1w.1a8leo0bqclk8.dlg@40tude.net> <19eg4oytj672x$.1a77nseftvkzk$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:47:20 +0200 Message-ID: <151augng96ibf.sylm3jz13mfi.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2005 15:47:20 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 892f8c58.newsread4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=3?G5gSKOjB[6LHn;2LCV>COgUkn_?_Y?g`e?ePPk5N= X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10120 Date: 2005-03-29T15:47:20+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:40:53 +0200, jtg wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> Maybe, but I just don't need wc! There is no occupation "word counting". >> The most close thing is linguistics and text analysis. Can wc that? >> > There are other tools for text analysis. With wc you can get the number > of lines in a file or the number of entries filtered by previous > commands. Like > cat *.ad? |wc > Which gives you immediately the total number of lines in your ada files I don't need that number. What I need is the list of all overrides of the primitive operation Foo in the instantiations of the generic package Bar with the formal parameter Baz set to the type Unbounded_String. >> The problem is that there are 1000 different commands with 50 options each, >> which gives 1000*2**50 variants to remember. Every UNIX admin starts with >> making an alias to ls and 100 further commands. It is just unusable. It >> took decades before people finally understood it and wrote KDE, Gnome >> control centers. Admins despise them, but they are lost. > > Really? But there are some 1000000 different Windows programs and each > of them has 1000 options, so you have to remember 1000000*2**1000 > variants :-) It is unfair to compare anything with Windows! (:-)) But yes, to achieve its goal to be the worst ever OS, Windows extensively uses UNIX ideas. It replaces a plethora of useless utilities with an equivalent set of dialog boxes and control tabs. Because it is still significantly less than UNIX's geometric explosion, MS shuffles the GUI at random to get the desired effect: you newer know "where is that damn thing!" > If you don't need command line tools, you don't have to use them, > but don't call them bad design just because you don't need them. depends on the requirements, the design is supposed to fulfill... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de