Re: A few potential requirements

[Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>]

      On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jon Saperia wrote:
    > John, I find it far easier to develop applications that manage devices
    > when using an API/library approach rather than parsers and
    > interpreters.

Right, as would operators, if operators were tools developers by vocation,
rather than by unwanted avocation.  But we're operators, so we need things
we can type, without having our lives mediated by lots of code that we
would then have to pack around.  

If we can't type it, from our heads, into a TTY, and make the box go, you
may as well not build the boxes, and we can all go home.

                                -Bill