No more right click terminal
Colin Walters
walters at redhat.com
Sat Jul 16 00:18:56 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:37 -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> > I in fact wrote a bash script to send grade mail as well (from the
> > exported gnumeric spreadsheet as text) but that's just because the
> > provided tool for grading sucked and was in tcl/tk and I didn't want to
> > touch it. The university should be in the business of providing grading
> > tools; they shouldn't expect every TA to write their own.
>
> So your argument is that even though this is what you did, it is still a
> bug, and people should expect other people to write programs that do
> things exactly the way that THEY the USER want it done.
Yes, I think the general population should expect programmers to write
programs that don't suck.
> Not to be a jerk,
> because I was really just commenting on the use of the commandline, but
> this is exactly what is happening _here_.
No one's advocating removing the commandline, it is definitely useful
for the people developing the applications.
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