From owner-freebsd-small Tue Oct 6 15:38:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17667 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17504 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.58.124]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAI50E; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:37:14 +0200 Message-Id: X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:31:41 +0200 To: Tony Li From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: WWW i/f Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <82hfxhzgx1.fsf@chimp.juniper.net> References: <000501bdf069$12346d60$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNhqMPoY752GnxADpEQJelQCeNSTtk5Yn8LARNt5wWxS61Npe7c0Anj3a rf2M0tCpypu0viNVlWJshjnL =FJNA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message