Comment Re:Intelligent Interfaces (Score 1) 193
Intelligent interfaces like you describe wouldn't be incredibly difficult to code, the problem is that they'd be unreliable. What if the interface "thinks" that you're going to attempt to load one program, when in reality you're actually moving for the program next to it? Now computer resources are being used up to preload the long program, slowing the time it takes to load the actual program you want to use. Everyone needs to stop hoping and waiting for the next "nifty" interface and realize that function over form is still better.
Like someone else said, for most tasks you just can't beat the CLI. Everything else is just going to slow you down.
What people should be waiting for is a method to make a CLI more accessible and easy to use. Problem is, I can't think of any CLI front-end that would be as quick and easy to use as the CLI itself.
Like someone else said, for most tasks you just can't beat the CLI. Everything else is just going to slow you down.
What people should be waiting for is a method to make a CLI more accessible and easy to use. Problem is, I can't think of any CLI front-end that would be as quick and easy to use as the CLI itself.
