If you read the blog carefully, you notice that the topic is about usability for upcoming command line tools. An hypothetical apt something follows the pattern

If you read the blog carefully, you notice that the topic is about usability for upcoming command line tools. An hypothetical apt something follows the pattern found on curl, ping, unzip, ... Correcting user input when badly typed is something git already serves as example. So, labeling as dumb one of the parties at a discussion about intuitive command line switches as if they are immutable should be done with more substance. btw, when reading your reply this was the first thing coming to my mind: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-16 http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-16 Have fun. :-)