> "command line tools on the grounds that someday they may be in an environment where that’s all they have. I think of this as a sort of computational survivali

> "command line tools on the grounds that someday they may be in an environment where that’s all they have. I think of this as a sort of computational survivalism." I don't think this is a helpful characterization, because this invokes post-apocalyptic associations of a world where there are somehow only text terminals left. In the article itself, the author goes on to describe a scenario where he used generic text/command line tools to achieve functionality that had not been explicitly granted to him by a restrictive software policy at work. As opposed to survivalism, I think it's more fitting to describe it as user empowerment. I'd argue that the premier usage scenario for these tools is not as a fallback in hard times, instead it's an important type of toolset integral to the craft.