[Info-vax] Desirable features for VMS

[Scott Dorsey]

Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>On 26/01/2024 00:18, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> Very few people work at the command prompt today. I doubt "shell power"
>> will become a requirement.
>
>Not sure that is true. MS Servers don't have a GUI, Most Linux servers 
>are installed without a GUI
>
>GUI is for userspace

Unfortunately it is true.  I have met a lot of Microsoft-Trained Windows
Experts who have no real understanding of powershell and who either just
type in commands that they have been given or use a gui tool that sends
powershell commands to the remote machine.

However, I do not think this state of affairs is good.  In fact I think it
is probably the one thing most likely to destroy our computer infrastructure
today.  So I think that having better and more powerful shells is very
important, but I also think that teaching people to use them is just as
important.

The nice thing about bash is that there are a lot of good training resources
out there.  When I was learning DCL there were some wonderful grey training
manuals too.  Times have changed, though.
--scott

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