[p3ll0n]

My feeling is that people's strong preference for one interface and stern rejection to the other (GUI vs. CLI) are sometimes more psychological than technical.

The truth, I think, lies somewhere in the middle. CLI and GUI are essentially complementary modes of interacting with the computer. CLI is generally easier if you can remember the commands and the options, which is the case if you use them a lot. If you don't use certain functions a lot, a nice GUI (like Gitbox) can help you find them quickly. Of course whenever you have to repeat a command many times you should automate the process by writing a script, but in theory you could link that script to a button or menu item in a GUI. It doesn't have to stay at the command line.

[koenigdavidmj]

Apple's A/UX had a nifty interface feature: but if you double-clicked a UNIX command-line executable and a `Commando script' existed for that program, then a little window would pop up with the common options. It would show you the command line that it was putting together, and when you click OK, it would bring up a terminal and run the command in it.

Here's a screenshot of how it worked for ls(1): http://applefritter.com/ui/aux/images/cmdo-ls.gif