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<DIV>In a message dated 12/1/2005 12:36:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, bill@celestial.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>As Doug Gwyn said, ``GUIs make simple things simple, and complex<BR>things impossible''. I like them for rarely performed tasks,<BR>and, of course, graphical jobs (e.g. the Gimp), but really prefer<BR>GUIs that are basically front-ends for command line execution.<BR>Ideally they create a log of the commands executed so I can<BR>figure out what's going on behind the scenes.<BR><BR>For fast data entry, I far prefer a clean curses interface, and<BR>am in the process of rewriting our accounting software using<BR>python's ncurses as a front-end to a postgresql database. This<BR>is replacing a metric tonne of C code on top of Unify's RDBMS.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Though I am days away from Mark's original post and Bill's follow-up, I couldn't help but opine as well. Someday, I predict, someone will sell a NON-GUI interface as the next "latest and greatest" thing for data entry and really efficient, fast computing.</DIV>
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<DIV>"You say you're not satisfied, you say you want more for your money, step right up, tell you what I'm gonna do! NGI, I tell you, NGI. Non Gui Interface will sweep the nation. NO, the WORLD. Think of it, my business friends... your employee's hand will never leave the keyboard! No smiley faces, no twirling hour glasses, no cursor tails... just simple, satisfying, easy accomplishment. What use to take hours will now be done in minutes, what use to take minutes will now be done in seconds, what use to take seconds... well, you get the idea. It's fast, I tell you, FAST."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Lee B. Walker<BR>Walker & Company<BR>5307 Front Royal Drive<BR>Cross Lanes, WV 25313<BR>304-419-0013<BR>leefp1@aol.com<BR><A title=http://www.walkeronline.com/ href="http://www.walkeronline.com/">http://www.walkeronline.com/</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>