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: 103376,8de7eedad50552f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!newsprint.newsread.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!news.banetele.no!uio.no!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!feeder1.news.jippii.net!reader1.news.jippii.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Tapio Kelloniemi Subject: Re: [OT] Ada bench : count words References: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:00:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.30.176.187 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: reader1.news.jippii.net 1112101222 217.30.176.187 (Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:22 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:22 EEST Organization: Saunalahti Customer Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10118 Date: 2005-03-29T13:00:22+00:00 List-Id: 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. 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. 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... -- Tapio