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In article <kevinbDp2t9D.KMr@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> In article <dke-2203960645550001@adnline48.adnc.com>,
> David K. Every <dke@adnc.com> wrote:

> >That is WHY CLI's have been failing. Most users recognize that altruism in
> >that statement. Many CLI users do not!
> 
> CLIs have been failing because they are harder to *learn*, not
> necessarily because they are harder to *use*.  However, since the CLI
> in question is almost certainly the one supplied by DOS, this amounts
> to basically the same thing.  The DOS CLI isn't even in the same
> league as the ones supplied with Unix, but since the CLI in DOS is the
> most common one (thanks again to Microsoft, the company that has made
> an art form of making mediocrity successful).
> 
> Either way, a CLI is merely one way of using a computer, and while you
> and many others may argue that it is an obsolete interface, it should
> be clear to anyone who has thought this through that a CLI and a GUI
> are complementary.  For simply launching programs, I find the GUI to
> be a better tool than a CLI...as long as the variety of programs I
> want to launch doesn't grow too large (otherwise I have to look for
> them or otherwise select them, which takes about as much time as does
> typing in the name).

Not that you are saying such, but I would just like to point out here that
most non-mac users seem convinced that you cannot run a mac using a CLI,
even though the fact that this si wrong is pointed out every week on these
groups. There are plenty of mac programmers, at Apple as well as
elswehere, that largely live in the CLI of MPW. These people are perfectly
aware that a CLI is a useful tool for what they do and they use it. 
Most of the people criticizing macs for not having a CLI do that same sort
of work and they would look substantially less foolish if, before
critizing the lack of CLI, they were to actually take a look at MPW.

Maynard Handley

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