Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3 criticism Message-ID: <3409@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 28 Sep 90 11:23:37 GMT References: <3401@gmdzi.gmd.de> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 21 gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes: > ... This is the case with >the Mac, and this is what I am so very afraid of. I don't >want my user-extensible, infinitely flexible interface taken >away because GUI's are the "in thing" which will solve every- >ones computer problems. I understand and support your argument, but I don't think that falling back to old fashioned shells using slow terminal emulations in graphic windows is the right way to get user extensibility back. I would rather like to have some kind of script language to extend and modify parts of the GUI itself. A textual representation of what the usual macro recorders record, enhanced with a few programming language features would be fine. Just think about having something similar to the WinBasic language from WfW, but on the system level, not the application level. Wolfgang Strobl #include