Re: Woctave-another gui front end

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Freddy López <address@hidden>
>To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> 
>Cc: José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" 
><address@hidden> 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 6:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Woctave-another gui front end
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>I think this discussion never will converge to an agreement.
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>Many people are convinced that some kind of tools as shell or emacs are the 
>best way to work and others not. I think there is nothing bad in a GUI which 
>allow to the user do bored tasks more... faster than typing. 
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>For instance, consider the GUI of R program under windows. This is, I think, a 
>basic GUI which has basic functions in its menus (open scripts, load 
>workspaces, change directories, save files, stop processes). Nothing else. It 
>is basic but it helps to the productivity.
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>In my opinion, an terrible example of a GUI is the R Commander GUI. This seems 
>has been built for people don't like to do nothing except those things are in 
>the menus.
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>Cheers!
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I see no logical difference between reading table of contents of a document and 
GUI menu having the _same_ items.

If people can't read documents, they shouldn't be doing engineering, scientific 
and development work.


Regards,
  Sergei.