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Originally Posted by jeffcobb
Actually I think it is funny to hear that, like there is something wrong with typing something to a computer to tell it to do something. Leaving aside the pedantics of binary, typing something to a computer to tell it to do something is not that different than order dinner in a French restaurant...in French. Or discussing something with a Karate instructor in Japanese. IOW there is nothing wrong with that and a whole lot right with it. Is it for everyone? No of course not but there is indeed nothing wrong with typing something to a computer to tell it to do something. People who look at it like it is some kind of exotic skill are the ones who are funny...to me, having to click on things to get a computer is about as non-intuitive as one can get. To apply this to the French restaurant, it would be like grunting and pointing at things on the menu as if you could not read it...
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Why should I go through all the hassle if someone else has done it for me? (I'm not talking about buying a software program--that's not what I did, I just found the scripts to download and install.) Should I really spend years studying French before setting foot in a French restaurant if pointing gets me what I want to eat? Maybe it would make sense if I was going to spend time in Paris, but for one quick meal? Same thing here. And even if I typed in some script, it wouldn't be something I understood, I'd simply be copying like a monkey, so ... why NOT just download and be done with it?