[Gslug-general] CLI vs GUI

[Ken Meyer]

Agreed.  My son-in-law, who works there, and is the reason I have
teeth-marks in my tongue after every holiday dinner, says that many
developers there prefer even DOS for normal operations.  I am not dissing
the CLI, just suggesting an order of addressing things.  The CLI is best at
glue and systems operations, but if you don't have application data to
process, only people who enjoy manipulations for their own sake will be
enthralled, and the best way to access and instruct an app is, I suggest
until shown otherwise, usually through the GUI.

Ken M.


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On Behalf Of Brian Hatch
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:33 PM
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Subject: [Gslug-general] CLI vs GUI

One thing I should point out is that Microsoft is putting
more and more into monad/powershell/whateveritscalledthisyear,
their CLI interface.

My windows power user friends say it's the best thing in years.

So the CLI isn't dead, regardless of operating system.

This was not meant as a troll, or to keep this thread alive.

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