[Alpine-info] Re: Strange behaviour in deleting from Gmail

[Mark Crispin]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

>> Once upon a time, people understood how to do command interfaces that

>> were neither alphabet soup ("; is the command to search") nor cryptic

>> ("cat is the command to view the contents of a file, grep is the command

>> to search through files,...").

> Do you have a good example of one done right?


Tenex and its successor TOPS-20 had CLIs that were quite intuitive, with 
content sensitive help and full completion.

To this day, there are people who use the UNIX port of MM, the MUA that I 
developed (I was not the original author) for TOPS-20 in the late 1970s 
and early 1980s, rather than use Pine/Alpine.  I don't agree with their 
viewpoint, but I understand it.

-- Mark --

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