Harmful is wrong word: "less effective" is more realistic. The title of this post is clickbaity. The "goto considered harmful" was the start of this and the ove

Harmful is wrong word: "less effective" is more realistic. The title of this post is clickbaity. The "goto considered harmful" was the start of this and the overall pattern has not improved with age. Most mouse GUI actions don't require complex curves even when they appear to. You can see this when you look at GUI recording and automation scripts generated or supported by tools such as Sikuli [1]. The better approaches don't even require precise coordinates for most actions let one complex curves/lines. What the mouse does provide is a suitably generic input device that allows exploration and discovery. A strict CLI style user interface doesn't tend to have this level of possibility without rapidly becoming overly simplistic. Readline support is a good attempt for most realistic use cases but still requires a learning curve. Final note for people who think mice are intuitive: back in the day I had to train people on how to use the mouse button to click a onscreen button. The two events are not inherently obvious - they just appear so now because our culture has now adopted it. The bar has been raised. [1] http://sikulix.com/ http://sikulix.com/