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

[Duke Normandin]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:


> 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.


Can a person see this CLI in action from the Web anywhere? It would be
cool to play around with a CLI that was well thought out from the get-go.
-- 
Duke Normandin