Re:C'mon! (Score 1)

If anything, people who don't use a
command line are smarter than you because they're cutting down on
keystrokes, thus improving their
productivity.

Wow, I have to disagree. Coming from a background of using the
gooey goodness of the Mac OS since system 7, I have been all about GUI
GUI and more chewy gooey goodness, BUT everyone I have ever taught how
to use the Mac OS in its previous incarnations, I always showed them
how to get almost anything done by way of using the keyboard, the Mac
OS ( same with windows ) had/has an amazing amount of keyboard
shortcuts and if used , a person could do about 99% of their work with
out ever touching a mouse. This seriously enhanced their productivity,
those that took to the keyboard shortcuts got gobs of work done in
record time compared to those that did not.

As for using the command line instead of a GUI , my first reaction to
OS X was

" damm years of Mac OS knowledge in the dustbin, I was elite dammit!" (
he said with a tinge of sarcasm and sadness ) While I really have had
to reinvent my troubleshooting skills, almost all my beloved keyboard
shortcuts are still there, AND I get to use this newfangled thing
called a CLI, and I tell you it is an order of magnitude faster to move
around on remote servers using the terminal than a GUI, an order of
magnitude faster to edit lots of html/plain text documents using the
terminal, and I have really just scratched the surface. Now on my local
HD , I know I can get to
places way faster in the GUI than using the CLI, But I certainly do NOT
use my mouse to get that speed, but the keyboard and only the keyboard.
One thing I do use the mouse for a lot is placing the insertion point
in certain places, seems faster than the keyboard sometimes, but only
sometimes.

The thing that sort of makes this thread on topic is that I hope that
programmers that use this book will add tons of keyboard shortcuts to
their GUI programs, so we can be chewey and gooey yet not use a mouse.