[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Paul van Nugteren]

I very much agree with you Ari! A lot of people seem to forget that
computers should be TOOLS too.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:19:02 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:
> Google may have 1 command but on a pc you want search and replace. You
> want to find email addresses throughout your documents in certain
> folders. Not so easy with a GUI because you are really searching for
> something at something.someextension
> 
> People want automation -especially those not-geeks who use Photoshop.
> Apple gives them applescript and we give them bash as the default
> scripting language and send them off in the dark. That was my main
> problem. I see lots of cool things in www.scriptbuilders.net and I
> wish we had something like that too...though I admit it is still power
> user stuff.
> 
> 
> 



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