I spend at least 30% of my time in the command line, but at least 90% of that time using it to parse complex formats before I can do what I really want to do wi

I spend at least 30% of my time in the command line, but at least 90% of that time using it to parse complex formats before I can do what I really want to do with my data -- or fake it (e.g., plain grep on structured data, because properly parsing it is not well supported by any tools yet). That doesn't tell me text is dead. It tells me text is the best we've got so far, and we're desperate for something better. When a C=64 was the only computer I had, I spent most of my time writing assembly language. That wasn't evidence that assembly language was the way to go. I just had insufficient perspective, from having to use insufficient tools.