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No. Not in a million years. Anything that requires typing obscenely cryptic commands in the right order and getting very variable-quality feedback about the re
by pierrefar 18y ago
No. Not in a million years.
Anything that requires typing obscenely cryptic commands in the right order and getting very variable-quality feedback about the results is not user friendly by any definiton let alone newbie friendly. Just because you and I know how to hack the command line doesn't make it easy or good and we shouldn't kid ourselves.
- dimitar 18y agoCommands don't need to be obscenely cryptic and if they get too long you can easily teach autocompletion. If you have basic verbal skills, then you know stuff like context, so there should be no problem with the "variable feedback". I used DOS when I was 5 - learning to create text files, run programs, navigate the file system wasn't hard at all. My mom explained to me those things only once or twice. I certainly didn't need to "hack" anything in any sense of the word.