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The Case Against GUIs, Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the what-part-of-ls-thor-don't-you-understand? dept.

snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia advocates the importance of the command line, in light of the increasing use of GUIs in today's technologies, as well as the increasing perception among admins that proponents of the CLI are dragging computing back to the 'dark ages of the C:\ prompt."

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  1. Talk to your computer? by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.

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  2. Re:First post by twollamalove · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but to master same functionality using windows batch files it takes a lifetime of discipline

  3. CLI is no longer essential by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    CLI is not essential. It's a holdover from a time when we thought words were a good way to express function. And then left the 'e' off "creat" for kicks.

    Everything can be done in a GUI. I don't see why not. We just haven't made that happen yet.

    1. Re:CLI is no longer essential by Hatta · · Score: 3, Funny

      Everything? I'd encourage you to write an OS using a point and click programming language.

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  4. Re:First post by kikito · · Score: 4, Funny

    And masochism

  5. Re:First post by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like my CLI smartphone. With wget and Perl5, I don't need any of those useless, cluttery widgets for connecting GPS to reviews of local restaurants - and dialling is a breeze, as I grep through the flatfile of contacts I have acumulated by rsyncing from my desktop dump of the company LDAP.

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  6. Re:First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At last, I've found another n900 user! Brilliant phone.

  7. pre-history vs. history by mangu · · Score: 3, Funny

    A dividing line in human history is the invention of writing. That's what differentiates pre-history from history. After the invention of writing we have records of what happens, before that it's up to archaeologists to dig ancient garbage dumps to infer things.

    Incredibly, there are people who want to run the inverse way in computing.

    What next, will we have to climb trees to use computers?

  8. Re:First post by lennier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah! You can learn to write every control structure with GOTO LABEL if you just twist your brain into a tortured nightmare of insanity.

    It's quite comfortable once you get used to it.

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  9. Re:First post by billcopc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Son, when I was your age, we didn't have GOTO. We had a stack pointer which had to be managed by hand, and WE LIKED IT.

    MOV AX,1202
    PUSH AX
    RETN

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    -Billco, Fnarg.com