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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
but my point was that CLIs are more powerful, not easier. And as we gradually emerge from the dawn of computing we really should move towards the more powerful paradigm.
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Sorry, I don't understand. Take a typical application, such as a web browser, a word processor, or a spreadsheet. Explain to me how it would be "more powerful" to have to type a command to follow a hyperlink on a web page, rather than simply clicking on it? Or how is it "more powerful" to use a CLI to edit a paragraph in a word processor, rather than just visually scrolling to it, and typing it?
These are the tasks that people in the "real world" use computers for!
There is, to my mind, a rather small group of specialised tasks that a command line interface is convenient for. For the vast majority of "real world" tasks that people use computers for, however, the "point and click" paradigm that a windowing interface and a mouse makes possible is so much productive.
Compare the task of writing a letter in "Word" compared with doing the same thing in "vi". Which is the better tool for the job? I think that only a masochist would choose "vi"
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