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From: ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard)
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Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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Date: 28 Mar 91 04:48:33 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.221220.22757@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes...
>In article <1991Mar27.201319.4604@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>>
>>With good reason. GUIs interfere with throughput for us real professionals.
>>I can do things at least 4 to 5 times faster without a GUI in the way.
>>
> 
>I'm sorry, but I don't buy the "real professionals use text interfaces"
>argument. I have been using computers for years on a daily basis, 

So have I.

>and have
>found that for the day to day needs of at least this user (and I do not
>consider myself a computer nitwit) 

neither do I :-)

>command line interfaces waste enormous
>amounts of time. 

Rubbish.

 [wonderful stuff you can do with GUI's deleted...]

I use computers to analyze data, using my OWN programs (i.e.
not Microsoft Excel :-)

I can perform more operations in a tiny Cshell script than
you can in 100 mouse clicks (guaranteed!)

The bottom line is, different people have different needs,
and any overgeneralization is probably wrong.

					Cheers!  Alain Picard

p.s. This message was written on a computer without a GUI,
     and I daresay I was fairly efficient about it !   :-)