Re: Decent ADA compiler on a Mac

[Richter@Informatik.Uni-Muenchen.de (Valentin Richter)]

In article <VLADIMIR.95Mar21194513@speedy.intrepid.com>,
vladimir@speedy.intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic) wrote:

> This is (IMHO) one major shortcoming of the MacOS interface. If you
> want to do something fast, there's no way to do it. If you want to get
> into the "Foo:Blah:Bar:Quux:Fap:Blat" folder, you have to click-click-
> click-click through all those folders, instead of simply typing "cd
> Foo:Blah:...".

Point granted. But to be fair one has to take into account all the time
wasted when he or she typed something wrong -- and not only successful
command line commands. Then on average I doubt that a command line
interface is really faster.

Besides I strongly side with the fundamental design principle of a GUI: If
some object is already know to the system then you don't have to type in
its path and name to specify it for some action, but you only need to
point at it. To effectively support this principle we need some standard 
GUI interface elements to quickly locate a needle (objects) in a haystack.
These concepts will also overcome the natural limit of a command line
being that one has to know the exact name of every object he wants to use.

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Valentin Richter
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