Re: Kyan Pascal - new insights

[zcaa1122@rpool9.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer)]

In article <1993Jul21.130923.965@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au> WEZAMG@itwol.bhp.com.au (George ZAMROZ) writes:
>In <22h3j2$n7j@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> zcaa1122@rpool7.rus.uni-stuttgart.de writes:
>
>I am somewhat that you found the UCSD OS a pain to use. I always found it
>simple (due to menu driven system), but allowed me to do just about everything
>I wanted. Then again, it was the first OS on the Apple I used, so perhaps I
>got more used to it than yourself.
>

Well, I don't like it BECAUSE it is menu-driven. I generally prefer to
use command line interfaces. Under Apple Pascal, I regularly had to load
the filer from disk and choose from the menu just to get a disk directory!
Of course I had to write down the information I needed because the
screen would be cleared as soon as a program was started. Well, menus
can be very nice - I really like AppleWorks, for that instance - but
for programming, they are a pain to use.

I also don't like the UCSD file system. The requirement for files to
be contiguous on the disk, the lack of subdirectories, and the quite
obscure file structures (e.g. the separation of text files into "blocks"
to work with the editor/compiler) are not to my taste. But I admit this
might be very subjective.

- Wulf