RH recommends using Windows? plus a Question!

[Andy Green]

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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:38, PatrickM wrote:

> What did strike me, is that altough there is a nice graphical layer, much
> (I should say everything) can/needs to be done by command line (of course
> depending what you want to do).  Nevertheless, being converted from a true

There's a couple of technical reasons why the commandline apps are so widely 
chosen when the programs are written:

 - separating the business end of the program action from the user interface 
is very powerful... somebody can write a GUI layer on top who knows nothing 
about how the action of the program works, they just make the pretty UI and 
call through to the commandline app to get things done.  If somebody later 
decides to make a web UI for the thing, again they make no changes to the 
actual program action but make a thin layer on top.  In both cases the 
program actions continue to live in one place and GUI, web and commandline 
versions all benefit from updates to the same commandline app with hopefully 
zero complications.

 - it makes the program action scriptable with ease, and the program action 
can be used from within other programs in a clean way, eg xcdroast -> 
cdrecord

- -Andy
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