Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:17:10 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> But please be aware that you're subverting the plot by a secret society to produce
>> copious indecipherable output so users will switch over to GUIs and have things
>> hidden from view. :-) :-)
>
> And then the secret society can cause great amusement by
> utterly changing the GUI in every release to see how long it
> takes people to figure out the new one just as they
> got used to the old one :-).
Haha. :)
They'll pry my TUI from my cold, carpal-tunnel-syndrome'd
hands.
I still remember many years ago, before I heard of linux,
someone's reason for preferring computerized text files to a
book with the same data: "I can't grep a dead tree." So as
long as we can grep the code, the secrets can't be too well
hidden. ;)
--
Todd
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