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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. Re:Dead on by tweak13 · · Score: 4, Informative

    And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?

    When I was a sysadmin at a radio station, I wrote scripts that processed audio, including cutting and splicing. Having it automated saved a hell of a lot of time for the people that used to have to sit in front of a GUI and do it.

    Of course, there's all kinds of audio work that couldn't be done by script. The point is, you need both kinds, even for audio and video.