Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:31:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW i/f Message-ID: <Version.32.19981007002937.00fef100@pop.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <82hfxhzgx1.fsf@chimp.juniper.net> References: <asmodai@wxs.nl's message of 5 Oct 98 22:31:03 GMT> <000501bdf069$12346d60$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au> <Version.32.19981006002405.00e4f7c0@pop.wxs.nl>
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At 20:25 06-10-98 , Tony Li wrote:
>asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) writes:
>
>> What's so wrong about IOS? I still don't see it.
>
>The problem with IOS is that the command structure and interaction is
>completely inconsistent from command to command. This came about because
>the command parsing and consistency was originally done by one engineer,
>but as Cisco scaled up, it got distributed and there was no centralized
>design to provide for consistency across the command line.
So we have to keep the command set a central repository of discussion in
order to avoid the above mentioned problems...
>We should separate the results of the above problem with the good aspects
>of IOS: the command completion (blatantly stolen from Tops-20) and help
>strings made the command line tolerable.
Aye, I liked the command completion, and the help worked good too...
>Bottom line: if you can map out the command hierarchy today for everything
>that you want to do for the next 3 years, you're probably ok with a command
>line interface.
Suggestions towards achieving this goal?
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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