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>It'd probably be useful to pick some other examples to discuss. Maybe you can help with this, the author certainly didn't. Let me try: Firefox vs. Lynx IDE
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
>It'd probably be useful to pick some other examples to discuss.
Maybe you can help with this, the author certainly didn't.
Let me try:
Firefox vs. Lynx
IDE vs. makefiles/make/compile
Word. vs Latex
Excel vs. ????
Outlook/Gmail vs. Pine?
Does one of those encourage expression over operation? Probably the closest is Latex, but still I don't see how it would be more expressive than what someone who spends equal time learning Word would accomplish with Word.
- p9idf 15y agoExcel vs SQL or awk. Because Lynx (except for its dump mode) and Pine address characters on the screen in two dimensions, I consider them to be graphical programs. They are just very limited graphics. There is a difference between a program which displays text on the screen and a program which prints its output to stdout.