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!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: [OT] 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: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:47:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1w51pl4zm2xg.1fzsnvplybknf$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2005 15:47:08 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:10119 Date: 2005-03-29T15:47:08+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:00:22 GMT, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > jtg 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. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de