On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:11 -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Colin Walters wrote: > > Completely, totally disagree. Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin > > has to use the terminal for something is a bug. > > This is a very odd statement since one of the reasons that I was turned on > to Linux was that one of my teachers used to use a CLI command to figure > his entire class grades in one swoop. He entered his grades into a text > file using vi and then had a command aliased that would figure everything > up for him. When I was a TA, I used Gnumeric to keep track of grades. > What exactly is the fastest way in a GUI to take the output of a file that > has all the grades for an entire class in it, figure everyone's grades, > separate them based upon email address, and then mail them individually > from a GUI, while also mailing them ALL to his Department head in like 10 > seconds? I in fact wrote a bash script to send grade mail as well (from the exported gnumeric spreadsheet as text) but that's just because the provided tool for grading sucked and was in tcl/tk and I didn't want to touch it. The university should be in the business of providing grading tools; they shouldn't expect every TA to write their own. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
