Seinfeld reference: What's a dentist.... someone who couldn't get into med school. Jerry, you're a rabid anti-dent-ite!
Well, I'm not anti-GUI but a recent poster to the Terracotta users list complained that all we had were GUI's in our product and that he never, ever wanted to use a GUI. Terracotta comes with several GUI apps:
- Administration Console
- Welcome Tool
- Sample Launcher
- Sessions Configurator
- Eclipse Plug-in
I find the Welcome Tool and the Sample Launcher that it can start pretty useful. In one simple Swing app you can run some of the demos as well as view the code, the Terracotta configuration, and some explanatory text.
It had been quite a while since I figured the hard-core command-line mindset had died off so I spoke to my cohort Tim about this and he reminded me of the curses-based web browsers like links and lynx. I wondered how this sort of person develops code these days. Do they still use emacs, manually index their code to create ctags files, M-X shell, etc? I don't know, but if the answer is yes that is amazing. What? Do they refactor with sed and awk?
Tim asked if I remembered gopher, which was apparently a pre-web, distributed way to browse structured content. I wondered if one day we would have this same conversation except we'd be asking, "Do you remember the world-wide web?"
Back to the antiGUI-ite, not that emacs or curses aren't graphical user interfaces... of course they are. This person is really anti-desktop environment. It's hard for me to imagine that in this age and day that there are still hold-outs against the rise and domination of the desktop GUI.
Are you an antiGUI-ite? If so, write in and tell us why.
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