17 Dec
2011
17 Dec
'11
10:47 a.m.
On 17/12/11 1:27 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
On 12/17/2011 3:43 AM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Gotcha. The CLI sprang forth from the mind of DMR complete and perfect
and it is the end-all, be-all of operating system interfaces. Nothing
can improve upon it (except maybe tab completion).
The Bourne shell isn't named for Ritchie :)
--Toby
I'm
trying to say that I think that a command-line can be
interactive and helpful, rather than simply passive. (And I believe
it can be done in a way that makes both experts and novices happy.)
Perhaps not in the way Genera does it, but my point is -there is
room for improvement-. Today we have gazillions of cycles sitting
idle, displays with millions of pixels and our primary interface to
the CLI is not much more advanced than an ASR 33. (At least we have
lowercase characters.) The CLI itself hasn't really evolved at all
since Unix c. the 70s.
Because it simply works. Oh, there have been improvements
since the early
days, like tab-completion (which is very handy) or programmable
completion
(which tries to be smart and ends up being very annoying, so I quickly
get rid of it where it is installed by default).