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0 pointsgoto114y ago0 comments

I remember similar sentiments among geeks when GUI's became more commonplace compared to command line interfaces like DOS. But the reality is that for the majority of people using a GUI is much easier than a text based interface.

A full-blown general purpose text-based programming language is of course always more powerful, but a task-specific GUI can be much more efficient for the particular tasks they are designed for.

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yourenotsmart4y ago

Command-line interface isn't simply text, it's a conversational UI.

People who claimed GUI lost something were right, and that's why what was lost keeps coming back and it's still with us.

Google Search, Siri / Google Assistant, and the prompts in almost any video/graphics/3D-modeling software or other professional packages, not to mention the recent craze in "chat bots", all of those are essentially CLI reborn.

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0 pointsgoto114y ago0 comments

A full-blown general purpose text-based programming language is of course always more powerful, but a task-specific GUI can be much more efficient for the particular tasks they are designed for.

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yourenotsmart4y ago

Command-line interface isn't simply text, it's a conversational UI.

People who claimed GUI lost something were right, and that's why what was lost keeps coming back and it's still with us.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse