On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:11 -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Colin Walters wrote:
> Completely, totally disagree. Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin
> has to use the terminal for something is a bug.
This is a very odd statement since one of the reasons that I was turned on
to Linux was that one of my teachers used to use a CLI command to figure
his entire class grades in one swoop. He entered his grades into a text
file using vi and then had a command aliased that would figure everything
up for him.
When I was a TA, I used Gnumeric to keep track of grades.
What exactly is the fastest way in a GUI to take the output of a file
that
has all the grades for an entire class in it, figure everyone's grades,
separate them based upon email address, and then mail them individually
from a GUI, while also mailing them ALL to his Department head in like 10
seconds?
I in fact wrote a bash script to send grade mail as well (from the
exported gnumeric spreadsheet as text) but that's just because the
provided tool for grading sucked and was in tcl/tk and I didn't want to
touch it. The university should be in the business of providing grading
tools; they shouldn't expect every TA to write their own.