Text-based UI...

[Jules Richardson]

Bryan Pope wrote:
> 
> Since when is a text-based UI a bad thing?!!
> 
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/0025241

heh heh - I like the way almost every single reply advocates the use of a 
different development app/language. I bet the poor original poster is totally 
confused (which serves them right for not realising that text-based interfaces 
have their place too :-)

I remember doing work to put Java / Web-based front ends onto AS/400 stuff 
back in the mid-90s (at the customer's request, I hasten to add - they wanted 
to "embrace the web", along with any other number of nauseating 
marketing-driven things). It was, by and large, utter hell. Interfacing 
between an OO language in a graphical, web-oriented client environment and the 
AS/400 way of doing things was "interesting" to say the least. (not that I'm 
knocking either - but the two just didn't mix well!)