[speakwithalisp]

Its bizarre how often I see programmers complain about CLIs given the nature of the work. A CLI is just higher-order programming. At what threshold does the author find programming an appropriate solution? Perhaps we should do everything on paper in metal filing cabinets to maximize the stimulation we provide our visual cortex.

I'm not personally averse to GUI usage. It just seems to me that complaints of "too many options" are common in regard to CLIs. And yet to me it seems that CLIs have significantly fewer practical permutations than a Turing-complete programming language.

[em-bee]

that's a good point. if only the CLI had the consistency of a real programming language. even PHP for all its flaws is more consistent than the commandline.

don't get me wrong. i live on the terminal. and the problem with inconsistency of commands, a GUI won't fix those. on the contrary, GUIs are probably worse, especially the web based GUIS we are getting everywhere now.