On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 11:44, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I can't fathom how anybody could be a computer user and have no
experience with using a CLI. It's staggering that there are computer
users who've never written a program before (and the idea of non-
computer nerds wanting to use computers is odd, too). When I was
young, we had no OS (beyond a disc loader), we had to create our own
programs (usually on pen and paper, first). And I find it impossible
to believe the idea that someone could create software solely using
GUI.
This is called "culture clash". There is a lot of going around. I grew up in
a small town with the cultural variety of New York City but too few of any
group outside the indigenous locals to make it possible for anyone to avoid
daily contact with multiple other cultures. Auto repair shops, for example,
were mostly owned by Eastern Europeans but often had to hire and train
locals whose only experience was with horse drawn wagons, etc. We all
learned to laugh about cultural differences when they came up.
Before retiring I tried to help some colleagues get started on Python using
"Learn Python the Hard Way" but they all gave up after a few lessons
and went back to Excel (it didn't help that IT had the attitude: "they can
do it all in Excel").
Now I work with big GUI systems from ESA and NASA that allow many
users to do their work without meeting a command-line, but the systems
are far from robust and as soon as something breaks, command-line
tools are required to sort them out.
George N. White III
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