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Wow, the commenters here are really defensive about their text editors and CLI. Yes, they do rule the day and they do a damn good job at that. But aren't you
by platz 14y ago
Wow, the commenters here are really defensive about their text editors and CLI. Yes, they do rule the day and they do a damn good job at that. But aren't you at lest curious what else could be possible? Don't be so quick to shoot other ideas down, no-ones forcing you to move your cheese!
- clebio 14y agoYes, absolutely I'm curious. I've been dreaming about it since moving the little LOGO turtle triangle around on my green-and-black Apple IIe. But despite that circa-1960s idea, I still use `scp` and grep to get-things-done. Come on, people, it's 1982! We should be dreaming of electric sheep by now!
- lmm 14y agoEvery year I read something like this. The first time I was excited. The second time I was vaguely interested. At this point I consider it a waste of time.
- jerf 14y ago"But aren't you at lest curious what else could be possible?" Well, I was, but after all the attempts over the years my curiosity has been sated. To the extent that you did not know this has been attempted many, many, many(, many, many, many, many...) times, well, that's a measure of how successful the idea has historically proved to be. Perhaps I too would fall into the "it should all be more visual" local optima sink trap of opinion if I hadn't seen so, so very many tries at the idea. Mind you, if you produce a working one that actually keeps all of its promises, I will hail your success. I will sing its praises all the harder precisely because I know how hard a problem it is. (Many of your users will take it for granted and think it was easy to build.) But I haven't seen one yet.