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Originally Posted by phenomshel
I don't think I agree with this, having been on both sides of the fence, so to speak. I think it is most definitely possible to create a GUI that is just as powerful as a command line, without it being impossible to use. I use photoshop on a regular basis, and I'd sure hate to have to do all those steps in a command line!
The real issue here lies in that everyone learns differerently. Some people are visual learners and appreciate a GUI, and others can visualize in an abstract manner and therefore prefer a command line interface. It doesn't mean either is better than the other, it just proves that, like everything else, personal preferences play a very strong part in the way an individual finds easiest to accomplish a given task.
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My point was that for some tasks like in photoshop a GUI is very suitable. But in photshop you do advanced thing and if you think a command line interface is complicated you will find the photoshop interface complicated.
For some tasks you have to have the abstract concepts to be really effective. And in photoshop you have a lot of abstract concepts (like e.g. layers) that you have to understand ow they work and how they are related to everything else.