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Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts?

Posted by Cliff on from the gui-snobbishness-begone dept.

JohnG inputs: "I just got into quite a long argument over on the Yahoo! message boards over the power of command line dev tools. Basically the guy told me that it is impossible to create 'state of the art' programs with command-line tools. But when I asked him to give me reasons why he just called me stupid and 'behind the times'. Considering he was an avid supporter of anything Microsoft, I take what he says with a grain of salt. But what I want to know is how many of you developers have switched from command line work to KDevelop or CodeWarrior? And what advantages you think it offers? Certainly there are many 'state of the art' apps created with command line tools, but I'm open to anything that can increase productivity. I've just never seen a compelling reason to make the switch from what I am used to and comfortable with." Personally, I feel the best development environment to work in would be one that ignores neither the GUI, or the command line.

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  1. Still having slow news days here? by scrytch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    From the "i-dunno-better-beat-that-horse-til-it's-disassoci ated-atoms" department...

    Basically the guy told me that it is impossible to create 'state of the art' programs with command-line tools. ...

    But when I asked him to give me reasons why he just called me stupid and 'behind the times'.

    I would simply call you insecure. He finds it impossible to create state of the art tools with CLI, you interpret it as a direct personal attack.

    Considering he was an avid supporter of anything Microsoft, I take what he says with a grain of salt.

    We all know any argument that comes from a supporter of Microsoft is instantly void of logic or or any merit whatsoever.

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    I am personally writing code for Soar (a symbolic AI language) in xemacs then importing it into a Tcl-based environment where I type things into the console like "print somerule" that dumps out a rule, then right-clicking on operators to generate more print statements, at which time i hilight some of these print statements and copy and paste them into a notepad window. And on windows, so process that, CLI boy.

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  2. Re:GUI cvs Command by be-fan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So this stuff doesn't actually exist?

    Neither does AppleScript?

    And BeOS can't really be scripted.

    Also, Framemaker scripting is just a figment of my imagination.

    As for piping information, you've obviously never used Cortex.

    Your comments are totally devoid of any basis in reality. Its just like saying "CLI apps are automatically hard!"

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