Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Dan McMahill wrote:
> > Sadly, most students are not comfortable with Unix and command  
> > lines. If
> > providing a more familiar GUI approach to using the tools is  
> > possible,
> > and doesn't detract from the core flexibility which benefits gEDA,  
> > I'm
> > all for it. It will help us compete with commercial tools - which  
> > (IMHO)
> > are not that good in terms of usability anyway.
>
> It is sad that most are not comfortable with command line tools.   
> I'd list awk and perl near the top of my "must have" tools for  
> work.  I can't imagine getting the job done without a decent  
> computing environment (i.e. if I were forced to use windows).  But  
> then again, I also realize that my view is biased by the types of  
> projects I work on.

  I think it simply boils down to a matter of being a useful  
engineer or not.  I'd certainly not put myself in the same class as a  
Dan "I design high-speed chips before breakfast" McMahill (ahem) but  
even I have made quite a bit of money in the past cleaning up the  
messes of point-and-click "programmers" and oh-my-god-anything-but-a- 
command-line "designers".

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL




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