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You can think of Jobs argument as this way. What `ncurses` is to you, computers are for normal people. You are essentially arguing the same point Jobs is empha
by palerdot 7y ago
You can think of Jobs argument as this way. What `ncurses` is to you, computers are for normal people.
You are essentially arguing the same point Jobs is emphasising. If Jobs have to do it your way, basically you are leaving behind 95% of normal people who are not tech savvy like writers, artists, accountants etc who could benefit from a computer without knowing the complicated inner workings of a computer. Exactly the same way you are benefiting from `ncurses` and not writing all the obsure logic of text rendering from scratch everytime just so you can work in command line ... You misinterpreted this whole discussion as an argument between GUI vs terminals which is not the point at all.
- tyingq 7y agoI agree with you, though I did know some non-tech people that were amazingly good with software like Wordstar, Visicalc, etc. Jobs makes fun of Wordstar in the interview, but it was a really productive tool, since your hands stayed on the keyboard.
- throwaway87378 7y ago> What `ncurses` is to you, computers are for normal people. That is a really dumb analogy, that makes a really good point. Try piping a program that uses ncurses. Ncurses is a shitty way to do a GUI on serial video terminals. It is a GUI and not a Unix command-line interface.