Re: [OT] Ada bench : count words

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:00:22 GMT, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:

> jtg <jtg77@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> 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 :-)
> 
> Millions of giant size programs with their own bugs and almost all of them
> fail to do something correctly. If some command-line tool sucks, just
> replace it with some other and combine the better one with other known-good
> tools.

You get the idea right: let others do my job if they don't like how I do
it. (:-))

> But if some GUI program has a feature you need, but it is unable to
> share data (or otherwise co-operate) with other programs, it is useless.

Even if "what I need" /= "share data with other programs"?

> Also I haven't heard of wizard applications which automate using
> GUI programs. I think it is much easier to write a bash script which
> invokes those hard to remember commands rather than writing an application
> which automates moving the mouse pointer to specified coordinates and then
> simulates a click. And that clicker wizard is even not portable to other
> screen resolutions...

You seem to mix program and user interfaces of an OS. I don't argue against
the former.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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