Archive for January 15th, 2008

Programmers are crucial to the advancement of any new computing metaphor

In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: “Real men don’t use mice”. This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but from the objective fact that [...]

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