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by ses1984 2219 days ago
Maintaining backwards compatibility isn't a problem that's unique to GUIs.
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At least in Unix/Linux, I doubt the reshuffling of command flags and arguments is more than one percent of what happens in GUI programs. And it's probably far less.

Command-line people take backward compatibility very seriously. GUI designers seem to think it doesn't matter, because oh, everything's so easy to find. Fie on that.