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> And frankly i suspect that CLI gets a bad rep because MacOS never had a CLI to begin with (OSX got one via its unix internals, but i am unsure Apple knew to v

by DerekL 9y ago

> And frankly i suspect that CLI gets a bad rep because MacOS never had a CLI to begin with (OSX got one via its unix internals, but i am unsure Apple knew to value it), and DOS was minimalist to put it mildly. Macintosh didn't have a (built-in) command line for a long time, but it has supported scripting for a long time, starting with System 7 in 1993.

mmphosis 9y ago
And, Macs had a debug button that when placed on the Mac and pressed dropped you into a low level debugger CLI. And prior to AppleScript, there were a few other CLIs on early Macs: Terminal programs like telnet, the CLI in MPW, and CLI / scripting in Applications like HyperCard and others IIRC.