Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!att!ucbvax!pasteur!gaia.berkeley.edu!kemnitz From: kemnitz@gaia.berkeley.edu (Greg Kemnitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Ware Ware Wizardjin (was Re: readline bashing (was POSIX bashing)) Message-ID: <12535@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Apr 91 23:44:43 GMT References: <70319@brunix.UUCP> <27F43DE6.4B53@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> <564@bria> <1991Apr04.025733.18462@decuac.dec.com> <1991Apr5.072447.4432@mtxinu.COM> <25649@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: kemnitz@gaia.berkeley.edu (Greg Kemnitz) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 While we who have mastered the intricacies of the computer and have high typing speeds may not "get any more work done" on fast computers with bitmapped graphics, etc, there is an entire world of new people getting work done on computers who would not be using them if it weren't for those Computationally Expensive and Wasteful (tm) interfaces. Gee, listening to some wizards, you'd think the bad old days had come back when computer time was more important than human time, and Herculian feats of engineering were required to make the computer do much of anything. I suppose some of us miss the days of yore when computers were the altars through which the common people worshipped us, rather than being things that the "common people" use to get their work done. We may look down our noses at those who think a device driver has something to do with auto racing, and for whom the options to IOCTL are not the stuff of mortal feuds, but they are the people who pay our salaries and justify our existence. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Kemnitz | "I ran out of the room - I Postgres Chief Programmer | didn't want to be killed by a pile 278 Cory Hall, UCB | of VMS manuals" :-) (415) 642-7520 | kemnitz@postgres.berkeley.edu | --A friend at DEC Palo Alto in the Quake