[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Michael Phipps]

Be chose bash because (presumably)
a) free
b) done
c) probably best of breed for shell and simple scripting

Personally, until I saw something better, I would be hard pressed to 
disagree. One direction that Be was headed in and looks similar to Monad 
was/is OpenBinder. Something to think about, although I am not completely 
enamored with it.

Michael

Ari Haviv wrote:
> 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?