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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AREXX and ICP
Message-ID: <1600@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 23:28:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 23:28:52 1987
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Keywords: Workbench, CLI, Icons
Summary: Workbench for neophytes ?!?!

It was mentioned that the CLI was for expert users and the workbench
for beginners.
Well.....just to let others like me not feel alone....
I am a serious veteran computer user and I have been valiantly using the
workbench. I only use the CLI when I'm *forced* to by programs that
don't understand icons.
I feel that it's easier to just point to something and drag it to its
new desination instead of typing:
  copy df0:stuff/funky/wow vd0:c/test/whoosh
I guess it's all diff'rent strokes for diff'rent fokes.
I realize the Workbench has problems (like slow drawers !),
but I think there's a future in this. Even if I have to fix it.
But anyhow, there are those among us who are not new at computers and
still would rather work in icons. I firmly believe (perhaps alone now)
that I can even *program* in an icon-based language.
Go ahead and laugh....they laughed Galileo, and at Columbus...
we all know the world is rou
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