Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <8esupn$g0p$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul 
Schlyter) wrote:

> Both have their respective advantages and disadvantages.  As I see
> it, a CLI is clearly to prefer in these situations:

Yes, I'd pretty much have to agree.  But the disadvantages of doing
stuff with a GUI don't really seem to hit me.

> 1. When you want to write batch scripts, or process large volumes
> of files.

I've used Applescript.  Easy to do and was able to record some
actions to make things even quicker.  But then this is something
I need to do very rarely.

> 2. When you quickly want to write a utility which does some
> processing, it greatly speeds up the process to not have to bother
> with implementing a GUI.  If you write your little utility in AWK,
> the entire program can reside *right* *on* the commandline, and
> you'll write it in perhaps 10 seconds!  Beat that with a GUI !!!!

I'd believe it, but it's not something I've really ever had to
do.  I know you can do something like this with some of the
programming stuff on the Mac...I've seen a friend do it with a
program he was working on and wanted to get it fully running
before he started implementing a GUI.
 
Greg B.
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