Very true. For instance, I frequently have Windoze users unintentionally move their mice and then files would go missing. The GUI can be a double-edge sword, but I suppose the benefits it brings more than outweigh the costs. micheal wrote: > Point taken > >However I feel like I have to point out that there are drawbacks to a >GUI interface, sometimes it can be ~~too~~ easy to do something >unintended. I'll give you an example: > >Contrast MySQL, command line, with MSSQL, GUI > >I had a friend who decided to rename a table in MSSQL. So he right >clicked on the table name, and went down to rename on the context menu. >His fingers glitched, and he clicked on the item above rename which >happened to be delete, table was gone. Had he not had a backup, it >would have been ugly. > >Had he been working in MySQL from the command like, I do not think he >would have made the same mistake. Its hard to type DROP TABLE, when you >mean RENAME TABLE. > >Food for thought > >Micheal >
