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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d76796391769899 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving the first contact with Ada References: <41d3829e-286d-4894-9140-31343bfa75ac@o12g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <82y6fgxncs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <82aarux3g3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <2da7ba0b-0c45-4c7b-a523-b3438e43212a@j27g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87k4qsapgr.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> <096e5f19-ed4d-4c02-b889-88856ac0d5c7@5g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> <87y6eiohup.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <472c5f8a-111f-429f-acf5-b50b76079241@3g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> <87typ6ocf4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <5b782537-f2cb-4568-9e59-7441269372f1@z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:48:44 -0400 Message-ID: <82hbl4okoj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8uCBlZIbgYIlmjTNG7JAw5sYVA4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: a7e424c172277e197caa721254 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12716 Date: 2010-06-15T02:48:44-04:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > Nasser M. Abbasi wrote on comp.lang.ada: >> On 6/14/2010 1:03 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> >>> I prefer command-line tools over GUI tools, so when I write a utility >>> for my own use, I never give it a GUI. >> >> May be this is getting off-topic a little...But I think there is a place >> for both? > [...] >> I think these days, in the web era, langauges with little GUI support >> build into them can cause these language not to become popular. [...] > > .. > > PS. For file management, I rely on the command line and emacs dired. Emacs dired is a GUI. It's implemented using the most modern GUI toolkit available at the time it was first implemented. It's been updated a few times, to take advantage of fonts and color. "GUI" means "Graphical User Interface". That means something that uses spatial relations in a display. It does _not_ mean overlapped windows, bit-mapped displays, or rodents. -- -- Stephe