[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Niklas Nisbeth]

Well, not so much out of the question, just impractical, as you were 
hardly ever in the same building, let alone room, as the computer, and 
the only feedback you got was via a printer. And the link was slow, 
measured in bytes per second.

I think there were graphical systems of some sort all the way back to 
the 60's, even before Xerox.

> And what problem do they solve? I think CLI started quite naturally; 
> gfx
> / gui was out of the question ie. not available with at that time
> current tech. Simple.
> 
> I use the cli for processing multiple files, even in windows xp.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:52:29 +0000, "Gavin James"
> <gavin.james at runbox.com> said:
> > Perhaps it would be beneficial to look back at what problem a 
> > command  
> > line or shell aims to solve and move on from there. Rather than 
> > look  
> > directly at solutions (or "HOWS") and try to improve them we should  
> > look back at the problems that they try to solve and work from 
> > there.
> > 
> > IMHO
> > 
> > - Gavin
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