11 Dec
2011
11 Dec
'11
6:32 a.m.
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
A friend who rented a room off me for a couple of
years wa s the first
to say this to me. I would often go to him with Linux problems and
queries and it took him quite some time to wrap his head around the
idea that I was powerfully averse to scripting and coding. It is very
alien to the Unix mindset, which is, yes, by programmers for
programmers. This makes it sometimes very unfriendly to
non-programmers.
Or, as the saying goes: "Unix is plenty user-friendly, it's just picky about who
its friends are."
- Dave