You are right about that, Captain Kirk - A few years ago somebody did a survey of interface preferences among software developers. That is a specialized group of course, and probably very different from the "man on the street" that some are worried about. (okay okay - "person on the street") What was interesting about that survey was they described three different models of computer interface. The first was a GUI (either X or Windows or whatever); the second was an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) such as Emacs and the like; the third was the CLI (Command Line Interface) which is where Unix/Linux shines. It is not surprising that the CLI was preferred by these power users, the IDE was second, and the GUI was least preferred, although each interface earned at least some votes for first choice. The thing is, that the CLI lets the user (hell, it _BEGS_ the user) to tailor it to meet his own unique needs. What I learned from this survey was that these are truly three viable models of interface, and none of them is in danger of disappearing any time soon. Chuck PS: It occurs to me that as we all know, "GNU" stands for "GNU is Not Unix" - but it is also tru that Linux is Not GNU (pronounced "New") Sorry for the pun. Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (47% of Full)
