| "Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?" Not really. These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience. Here's one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command line was once a "pleb". Txt'ing is what its name implies. Typing short lines of text. (And anticipating a quick response.) Seems reasonable to make a comparison to using the command line. IRC, or today's "chat", is also arguably similar. Typing short lines of text, and expecting a quick response. I have wondered about this for years as SMS and later Twitter, and now "enterprise chat", i.e., typing short lines of text, became popular. But winning a popularity contest for how people interact with a computer is not something that really interests me. My prediction based on last 30 years of computing history is that command line interface is never going to disappear (that is one reason I stick with it). It is there for whomever may discover and choose to use it. "They don't even know what they don't know." Exactly. And yet countless GUI lovers/CLI haters continually ask us to believe that some hypothetical user would _choose_ not use a command line interface when they do not even know that such a thing exists; they were never given a real choice. Who cares what other users want to use? It is their choice, not yours. Give them a choice a see what happens. Experiment. |