Doug Freyburger wrote:
> notbob wrote:
>>
>> What I find particularly amazing is the abhorance to using the command
>> line interface (CLI). You know ...like DOS. Yet, seems today's youth
>> have no problem knocking out five or six dozen text msgs per day using
>> only their thumbs, without looking! A new breed of touch typers who
>> hate using text commands. How bizarre is that?
>
> Using the CLI is a language so it requires skill in a language other
> than English. Doing text messages is theoretically in English so it
> only requires enough English to know how to reduce it to texting
> abbreviations. Not bizzare once I thought of it in those terms.

you're using a funny definition of language there ... using a CLI at
the elementary level requires mostly vocabulary which isn't so hard
to acquire, but the fact is when given the choice between menus or
CLI (or its equivalent in batch files) even many advanced users will
choose menus ... at least in my experience