From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T21:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

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> As far as UIs are concerned, I actually think that the smarter the UI
> the better. This is why I believe the "commandline" will one day fail -
> like the day when we have really awesome hardware AND software. Nobody
> inspired by science fiction movies?


Are you proficient with the command line? I don't mean this in an insulting
way, but I've _never_ encountered someone who used the command line more
than a gui who wants to switch to a gui if they'd just get better. Unless
the gui is reading my mind, I'll always be more efficient with a keyboard
than with a mouse. Since moving from full desktop environments to xmonad +
vimperator + vim, I've become incredibly more productive.

Yeah, a Microsoft Surface may look cool, but there's too much flash and not
enough getting stuff done in there. It looks amazing, don't get me wrong,
but to have to drag and drop things instead of hitting a key combo and
typing 4 characters? No thanks.

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