Different problems present their own niche for which interface should be used, CLI, GUI, API (try coding on the bare sockets, and calling POSIX or Solaris thread library routines as opposed to modern language APIs), Hardware Interfaces also have their own issues (try drawing up the Finite State Machines or Algorithmic State Machines without using GUI tools, let alone implementing on the bare bones as opposed to modern boards like FPGAs...) yet at the end of the day to a digital engineer, its all zeros and ones we are discussing, only logical voltage representations to an electronics engineer, and just semi-conductor physics to the Physicist...
The question of which one is better is only an illusive thing, and i think all interfaces are good where their usage merits so and as long as the users in each domain know what they are doing. Take the case: the blogger used some form of GUI, many of the comments on that page came in via GUIs, likewise Richard posted the link via a GUI (well, he can say otherwise....) and also many of the comments on this list usually come in via a GUI (and some of them from a typical super fool-proof GUI..) > I'd say the problem lies in Microsoft cultivating feeble minds for 20+ > years, and not in the command line itself. > > On 2 July 2012 16:49, Richard Obore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> please guys, don't kill me! >> :-) >> >> >> >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/218255/has-the-command-line-outstayed-its-welcome >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >> >> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: >> [email protected] >> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >> >> The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: >> http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them >> in >> any way. >> > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
