[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Ari Haviv]

It's based on applescript which you need if you want to make your own
actions. It's an example of combining the visual approach of a GUI
with the linguistic approach of a CLI. It's this combination that is
most natural. left brain with right brain.

Just like icons+text titles get you straight to the point (unlike
MacOS X dock or terminal)

The problem with the GUI only approach is that you eventually end up
in a mess of menus, tabs and buttons to cover every possibility except
the one that you are interested in. But the GUI advocates point to the
archaic terminal or cmd.exe with its black screen and funky commands
and syntax and score an easy win.

On 1/12/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
> On 1/12/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
> > Limited audience?? Do you know automater from Apple on MACOSX? I think
> > computers should be made to do the work of people NOT being just a
> > different interface a let the user repeatedly do the same action on much
> > data.
>
> >From what I can see "Automator" is not a CLI application, so how does
> this relate to my previous argument?
>
> Bye,
> Waldemar Kornewald
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