Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <nobody-91F855.21450803052000@news.wavetech.net>,
Greg Buchner  <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:
 
> In article <8eqfot$q14$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul 
> Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>> This is comp.sys.apple2 -- how did you use your Apple II if you never
>> used its command line?
> 
> Wrote a lot of menu programs.
 
How did you manage to write these programs without using a command line?
 
>> Anyway:
>>  
>> If you learn to use a command line, you can avoid a "mouse arm",
>> i.e. an arm which hurts a lot, due to excessive stress from a lot
>> of mouse movements.
> 
> I use a trackball...doesn't cause me problems.
 
I've switched to a trackball too -- but I still find the keyboard to
be easier on my hands and arms.
 
>> But I guess we come from different generations.  When I first learnt
>> to use a computer, there were no GUI's.  So I had three options:
>>  
>> 1. Learn to use the command line on an interactive terminal
>> 2. Learn to punch cards and submit batch jobs
>> 3. Forget about computers
>>  
>> 3. was out of the question -- I ended up learning both 1. and 2.
> 
> Well, I did use command line systems at college.  And I seem to 
> vaguely remember what I was taught about punch cards...I don't
> think they taught it too much more after I learned it.
 
I was never taight these things -- I had to learn it myself.  I've
actually rarely attended any computer class (it has happened, but I
think I have a grand lifetime total of perhaps 10 or 20 hours or so)
-- and now I'm working in the software business....  isn't life
strange?
 
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