[Lancaster] Re: Install Fest

[Richard Robinson]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Ken Hough wrote:
> 
> > The majority of people today have got used to using a GUI and hence the 
> > command line is alien to them. Fact! We are not going to change that in 
> > the space of a couple of hours.
> 
> Correct. The people who aren't even used to a GUI, however, will often find
> a command line easier if you show them how to use it.

I wish we could get away from this either/or. They're both useful.

"perl -i -e 's/x/y/g;' *" is vastly quicker, and for some mindsets much easier,
than pointyclicking an editor through 50,000 textfiles. But I'd hate to have to
edit a .wav file without a picture of the waveform where I can point to the
place where I want an action to happen. They're both good, for those that
like them.

Though, the cli tools are much better documented and easier to find out
about. 

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem