APPLEVISION Monitor, Anything !Windows = Cryptic ?

From: Raymond Moyers <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
Date: Mon May 6 16:02:23 2002

On Monday 06 May 2002 14:52, you wrote:

> If you configure *nix well, it's still cryptic and impenetrable to the
> uninitiated.
>
> > Honestly, though, if you'd like a system that a monkey can use,
> > it must only do things which a monkey would like to do. ;)

> That's a point that's difficult to dispute.

 On the otherhand, if you do away with the character that makes
 it so "cryptic" ( make it act like the other crap )

 Then its value is lost.

 As for me, its savior was bash and the editor in mc

 Unix, for years, shipped with a editor nobody could use
 and backspace key that did not work, and seemed rigged
 deliberate to prevent anyone but a machosist from
 ever learning enough to discover the power lurking
 therein, by sending all who dare attempt away
 frustrated and with a new object for their HATE.

 Linux is the first nix i saw that came out of the install
 with a working backspace key and several editors
 that a person new to Unix could use.

 I credit these two things for its success, no longer
 did it have two most fierce deterrents to learning.

 Raymond
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 16:02:23 BST