Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[al davis <ad252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 07 May 2009, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> Slapping a gui on top of a command line, in 100% of the cases
> I have personally experienced, has been a disaster.

NeXT????

"Slapping" is usually (100%) a disaster, but a well designed 
system where the GUI and command line are designed to operate 
together can be the best way.  From a software engineering 
viewpoint, it provides a way to enhance modularity, and the 
possibility of different interfaces for different people, while 
keeping the same core code.

Most of the original NeXT applications were based on a GUI on 
top of a command line.

Another example, which might comfirm your statement of 
"disaster", is that most GUI simulators are "slapping a gui on 
top of a command line".  This includes Pspice and Multisim.  
Even Qucs, which is useless in command line mode, is a gui on 
top of a command line.




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