Timeline for Synonym Breakage: Command Line vs. Command Prompt
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| Mar 9, 2013 at 23:22 | history | edited | Oliver SalzburgMod |
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| Jul 4, 2011 at 5:54 | comment | added | user541686 |
@Shog9: Everything Else BASH? You're punny. :P Also: I'm pretty sure that's what I was saying in my post: "Command line" is often contrasted with a GUI... aka they have completely different meanings. I guess the comments didn't go in that direction since it was more about the prompt (sorry) but that's kind of what I was saying in my post.
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| Jul 4, 2011 at 5:50 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Man... Here I thought someone was gonna be cooking up a deliciously-pedantic argument around -line (the bit you type) vs. prompt (the bit the terminal types to let you know you can type) vs. the terminal itself... Instead, it's a boring ol' Windows vs. Everything Else bash. | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 18:32 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
@Sathya On Unix & Linux, many askers (typically new-ish to Linux) misuse terminal to mean command line (we reserve terminal for questions about the terminal itself, not about the shell or tools invoked from the command line). I don't remember anyone creating a command-prompt tag or misusing the prompt tag.
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 1:35 | answer | added | Tamara Wijsman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 8:07 | comment | added | user541686 | @Sathya: Yeah I actually did. So why not make Ubuntu a synonym for Windows?... :\ | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:59 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | you forget that SU audience also includes the vast majority of people who arrive here upon searching the web. | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:43 | comment | added | user541686 | @Sathya: Hm... do you really think only 1% of SU users 'get' what a terminal is? If you look at it that way, you'd need to make Ubuntu synonymous with Windows, because only 1% of users 'get' what Ubuntu is... | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:42 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | So, you want the tags to reflect the 1% of populace that might "get it"? I'm going to have to disagree with you. | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:40 | comment | added | user541686 | @Sathya: Exactly. You mentioned it to draw an analogy to Windows, for someone who had not heard of a terminal. But have you ever told someone who's experienced in Linux to "open the command prompt"? (Wouldn't they laugh at you if you did?) | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:36 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | I just mentioned it right now to a friend who's new to Linux. There are plenty of people who don't "get" what a terminal means. A layman is more likely to understand what a "command prompt" means as compared to a "terminal". | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:33 | comment | added | user541686 | @Sathya: When was the last time you heard someone say to "Open the command prompt" on Linux? | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 7:26 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | command prompt is synonymous with any command line interface tool | |
| Jul 2, 2011 at 2:05 | history | asked | user541686 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |