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[Michael T. Davis]

In article <TpUVsd8Q0jBP at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <hcc4cm$f9a$2 at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
> DAVISM at ecr6.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
>
>> since most of them are undergrad. students, they would be hard pressed to
>> understand the concept of a command line
>
>   Undergraduates don't understand command line?  How did I ever get
>   that first Fortran program to run under TOPS-10?  Even my kids
>   understand command line.
>

	That was a poor choice of words.  They would most likely understand
the concept, but would prefer not to use it.  ("Why should I type when I can
point-and-click?")  Admittedly, accurate and inexpensive voice input hasn't
seemed to reach the mainstream yet, so (at least) composing messages typically
calls for typing, but clicking the send button seems much easier to the masses
than...

 MAIL> send/edit/nocc/sub="..."

...for example.

Regards,
Mike
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