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Said the other way, knowing the genealogy of a tool can allow a user to their existing experience, rather than starting from scratch. One applies to lowering t
by Godel_unicode 10y ago
Said the other way, knowing the genealogy of a tool can allow a user to their existing experience, rather than starting from scratch.
One applies to lowering the bar for novice users, the other is a force-multiplier for experienced users.
- azernik 10y agoThe force-multiplier for experienced users would be even more powerful if each convention covered more utilities, and in the optimal case if there were only one (I can dream, right?). I agree that it's very useful for an experienced user to learn the genealogy of all these tools for command-line wizardry, but they shouldn't have to.
- dredmorbius 10y agoBut that's unlikely to happen. A given utility exists in what are quite likely miilions if not billions of scripts / instances, each of which would have to be changed. The only way to fix this is to go back in time. NB: this is another reason to get shit right from the start. Which is what TFA is about.