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- From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
- To: rowland AT cashi.us, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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- Subject: [internetworkers] CLI
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:02:38 -0400
Rowland Smith wrote:
I was a mac developer for about 10 years. I didn't realize how useful the command line could be to a programmer until i went to work at IBM in 1995, and had to use OS/2 and then windoz. I'd used command lines on Apple II and mainframes, but not very much. I should have had a clue when Apple released their Macintosh Programmers Workshop (MPW), way back in the day, that gave developers a unix-like command line to work with. However, it was fairly expensive, and I didn't 'grok' it.
If you haven't already, y'all need to read "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson. He's got a pithy and amusing (and rambling) take on UIs. One of his anecdotes is about said Macintosh Programmers Workshop. It's a quick read, and free.
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
TaB
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Re: [internetworkers] Ode to OS X (was: WalMart Sun Linux)
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- Re: [internetworkers] Ode to OS X (was: WalMart Sun Linux), Michael Czeiszperger, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] Ode to OS X (was: WalMart Sun Linux), zman, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] Ode to OS X (was: WalMart Sun Linux), Ian Meyer, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] Ode to OS X (was: WalMart Sun Linux), Rowland Smith, 04/07/2004
- [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Shea Tisdale, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Ian Meyer, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Ilan Volow, 04/08/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Sil Greene, 04/08/2004
- RE: [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Shea Tisdale, 04/08/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] since no one else has yet..., Ian Meyer, 04/08/2004
- [internetworkers] CLI, Thomas Beckett, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux, zman, 04/06/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux, MCW, 04/06/2004
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Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux,
Tanner Lovelace, 04/07/2004
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Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux,
zman, 04/07/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux, Ian Meyer, 04/07/2004
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Re: [internetworkers] WalMart Sun Linux,
zman, 04/07/2004
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