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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:15:06 GMT, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> But "interactive command language" is nonsense in these days. There exist
>>> far better ways of interaction with human beings than command languages.
>>> They are a legacy of teleprinters.
>> 
>> Really? Name one.
>
> GUI

Muhahahaha. No problem: How to I specify complex collective renaming
operations in a GUI?

> (what about driving cars using an interactive command language? 

Well -- perhaps, that might be new to you, cars are less complex
(read: less powerful) than computers.

> Interaction assumes duplex communication, notion of time and
> state. People are not so good in simultaneous typing, reading,
> understanding, predicting.)

And GUI is monoplex or what? Doesn't overtax the user because it
doesn't output while he is inputting? Waits for user input and only
then talks back? (Or was that the ill reputed command line, whereas
the famous GUI is popping up out-of-context windows all the time in
the users face, trying to catch his attention focused on one task by
blinking twirling its windows and icons - I don't quite remember).

Regards -- Markus