RTFM 3370
And that's incredibly arrogant of you to put yourself above others whose hobbies-professions do not involve *nix.
I disagree with that, but it's irrelevant anyway.
OK, so are you saying we should ignore all the office drones? We should destroy every computer in the world with a GUI-centric OS installed, and kill the productivity of 95% of computer-reliant offices in the world?
So we should essentially rewind back 15 years, remove all graphical interfaces to computers, and reduce the impact that computers have on the world a hundred times? Should we bar everyone who doesn't bother to learn a hundred commands from using computers? Should we cripple the multimedia capabilities of today's generation of computers because it's too easy?
I'll agree, and it also points up the shortcoming in the GUI The GUI can only do what the application author thought might be necessary, and only in the way...
What you are saying is completely ridiculous.
Maybe because it's intended to be unneccessary in today's world. You'll notice that a lot of consumer Linux distros are working hard to eliminate need for the command line too.
John-Paul Stewart I don't know about PSP particularly, but you can do batch jobs like that with GIMP and Photoshop. More than likely...
What do you, as such a superior programmer, think about abstraction in programming?
Again, the usual line: I don't like Windows, I'm not trolling, and I love my Linux. But I can't stand extremists who ignore real-world practicalities simply to stir up long posts like this one. -- Kevin Wu Won exclipy #40979410