Comment on Don’t design like a programmerComments−statictype15yThese design articles are interesting but I wish more would provide examples of what you should do instead of just what you shouldn't.−GregBuchholz15yExactly. I've seen the GUI wget example held up as a bad example [1] before, but I've never seen anyone try to produce a "good" wget interface.[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...−saraid21615yWell, who's the user?−mahmud15yffmpeg is far more complex than wget, and has some seriously intimidating output for "--help", but it does the sensible thing of guessing intention from file extensions/suffixes. `ffmpeg foo.bar foo.quux` will just convert your file, silently.
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These design articles are interesting but I wish more would provide examples of what you should do instead of just what you shouldn't.
Exactly. I've seen the GUI wget example held up as a bad example [1] before, but I've never seen anyone try to produce a "good" wget interface.
[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
Well, who's the user?
ffmpeg is far more complex than wget, and has some seriously intimidating output for "--help", but it does the sensible thing of guessing intention from file extensions/suffixes. `ffmpeg foo.bar foo.quux` will just convert your file, silently.