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The command line has the advantage of presenting portable, terse and editable instructions that can be cobbled together into a recipe which can be abstracted an
by duggan 8y ago
The command line has the advantage of presenting portable, terse and editable instructions that can be cobbled together into a recipe which can be abstracted and automated.
It's a very powerful interface.
- gambler 8y agoWeb interfaces are used by half the population of the planet. Any command you run in a shell can be represented by a URL, an HTML tag or a form. URLs and HTML have editable text representations, and they also have semantics, standard composition rules and generic UI. Any "recipe" you're getting is likely something you get from a web page to begin with. That can be a tool for composition and automation on it own.
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- kaishiro 8y agoSo very few of those web interfaces used by half the population of the planet actually utilize semantics, standard composition rules, and generic UIs - even though they're available.
- craftyguy 8y ago> Any "recipe" you're getting Not necessarily. Distro package maintainers use and construct recipes that are not web pages, in order to allow folks to install complex software with, in many cases, one click.