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by digi_owl 3950 days ago
And why MS products stick around (and people bellyache when changes are made to the UI).
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I've become exceptionally leery of GUIs for anything remotely complex. Scripting provides the kick in the ass incentive not to arbitrarily utterly bollox interactions as countless millions of scripts would have to be rewritten. You end up with stuff like Sendmail compatible commands and switches for mailers long since the former's heyday (qmail a notable exception). Or SSH and rsh being largely compatible.

On the rare cases syntax does change people raise holy hell. It can kill tools. Especially if done more than once.

GUIs have none of these features and change capriciously.This tends to keep user proficiency at a low general level over time.

Web apps only extend this.