Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 12, 2001 @05:57AM from the decluttering dept.

evenprime writes: "Wired is running a story on Mark Hurst's extremely retro GoodEasy computing environment, and how it's old fashioned *nix approach to computing -- flat text, small simple programs that can be chained together -- increases user productivity" It's an interesting, hyper-simple approach, though any user outside of Mark's agency would have to apply some creative adaption. Every few months, I try to re-organize and simplify the documents and programs on my system, this looks like a good experiment for the next time.

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Re:Learn to Spell! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-12 06:08 · Score: -1, Troll

you dirty sandnigger
Here's how: #@ +1 ; Professional @# by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-12 06:24 · Score: -1, Troll

Use a script (via Perl, Python, shell, etc).

Thanks and have a Jon_Katz-free weekend.

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