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Ugh, I don't want to type that much at a CLI. Terseness is a virtue

• msla 7y ago
  Completion helps, but pushing too much in that direction (automated tool assistance) hits up against another thing: You want a CLI which is usable on a slow system or over a slow network connection, and those kinds of things are still very real, especially when you're trying to fix a system which is running a runaway process and therefore can't devote much CPU time to running a helpful CLI. There are other ways to fix that specific problem. None of them are as generally applicable as having a terse CLI.
• human20190310 7y ago
  Terseness can be a virtue, but when you arrive at ${#arr[@]} to get the length of the the array arr, you're practically dealing with hieroglyphs.
  • tomc1985 7y ago
    Which is fine with me. I have always hated how people seem to want computers to be more human-like. It's a computer, not a human being. I like that this stuff takes some skill to learn/use