| WORD! Generally, programmers who are afraid of the command line aren't very good at putting textual commands into a program text file, either. They will cling for dear life to code generators and other such facilities in an IDE. (but not the good kind of code generators that define an original source DSL to be expanded into otherwise unseen code by the build process itself, always the IDE based code generators that generate mountains of crap code that now must be read and saved in source control) They will cling to rigid, bloated, frameworks that require that they fill in parameters in an XML file, and write (many, scattered) tiny pieces of code to fill in the blanks for that framework, but which allow little variation from the application style which the framework mandates. Beware the illiterate, programmer, grunting at cave paintings on the wall (clicking pictures on the screen, only). See also: Pragmatic Programmers - power of text/shells sections; Neil Stephenson - "In the Beginning was the Command Line" essay. |