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MehGerbil12-Sep-14 5:05

12-Sep-14 5:05

I suppose you still use DOS to navigate to files on your PC?
Because if you're using Windows Explorer then that is 'Fisher Price' and much too easy for a serious professional to use.

Rage12-Sep-14 5:08

Rage

12-Sep-14 5:08

I use TotalCommander Cool | :cool:

Given, this is not DOS, but the design did not evolve since Win98.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

MehGerbil12-Sep-14 5:10

12-Sep-14 5:10

Good Heavens!
I'm going to have to begrudgingly give you a +5.

PIEBALDconsult12-Sep-14 6:07

12-Sep-14 6:07

MehGerbil wrote:
I suppose you still use DOS to navigate to files on your PC?

Often, but it depends on the task at hand.

"Use the right tool for the right job." -- Scotty

dandy7212-Sep-14 6:13

dandy72

12-Sep-14 6:13

If I haven't opened a command prompt window at least once on any given workday, I probably haven't accomplished much that day.

PIEBALDconsult12-Sep-14 6:19

12-Sep-14 6:19

I always have at least one open, often more than one.

Slacker00712-Sep-14 9:14

Slacker007

12-Sep-14 9:14

I write all my code in notepad. I haven't touched a modern IDE in ages. $Shucks | :-\$

PIEBALDconsult12-Sep-14 4:47

12-Sep-14 4:47

Stick with what works. The Command line works, always has always will. What I can't stand is the ridiculous Webbish interface they created that doesn't work.

MehGerbil12-Sep-14 5:02

12-Sep-14 5:02

That is what I'm complaining about - the UI I'm trying to use is clunky and doesn't work.
They're doing a terrible job of modernizing, IMHO.
Why not just use DIP switches instead of the modern command line?

modified 12-Sep-14 11:11am.

Rage12-Sep-14 5:09

Rage

12-Sep-14 5:09

Dip switch is old technology. Use the punch cards instead.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

MehGerbil12-Sep-14 5:12

12-Sep-14 5:12

We could use clay jars with rocks inside of them.
Or we could use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug[^]

Rage12-Sep-14 5:19

Rage

12-Sep-14 5:19

Some people have too much time on their hands.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

MehGerbil12-Sep-14 7:04

12-Sep-14 7:04

Rage wrote:
Some people have too much time on their hands.

They have all that time because they use a modern UI to get their work done during the day.
Big Grin | :-D

Eddy Vluggen12-Sep-14 8:03

Eddy Vluggen

12-Sep-14 8:03

The command line is not outdated technology. In fact, it is still vastly superior to the point and click interface. See the immediate window in the VS-IDE, see Powershell, see Telnet. A trained user is also an order of magnitude faster typing the switches than someone navigating all kinds of Windows with expensive (and buggy!) controls.

The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

PIEBALDconsult12-Sep-14 8:58

12-Sep-14 8:58

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".

Or a Mac -- but even they have a command line now don't they? I stil lhaven't seen one on my Droid yet either.

Jörgen Andersson12-Sep-14 9:07

Jörgen Andersson

12-Sep-14 9:07

It's not installed, so you have to do that yourself[^].

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

Eddy Vluggen12-Sep-14 10:21

Eddy Vluggen

12-Sep-14 10:21

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Or a Mac

I prefer real meat.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

User 842012-Sep-14 10:58

User 8420

12-Sep-14 10:58

Pretty sure Mac's have had a command line or terminal option for a VERY long time. Maybe even from the beginning (1984). Unsure | :~

UPDATE: I stand corrected. Some hard core Googling indicates that the terminal app didn't exist until OS X (1999).

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

modified 12-Sep-14 17:07pm.

PIEBALDconsult12-Sep-14 11:01

12-Sep-14 11:01

I'm pretty sure my father's Mac II Dead | X|

did not -- or maybe he just never let me get anywhere near it. I thought it was added when they went with OSX (or whatever it's called).

User 842012-Sep-14 11:08

User 8420

12-Sep-14 11:08

See my edit above. You are correct.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

Tim Carmichael12-Sep-14 5:13

Tim Carmichael

12-Sep-14 5:13

Is the complaint only with the install/uninstall or it is generally usage of Oracle?

So, has anyone developed a GUI interface for Oracle as a community project?

I've used Oracle in the past, but not enough to really care one way or the other; wrote the queries I needed by hand and modified them only on occasion.