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This reminds me of the feeling some had in the mid 1990s that command line interaction is on the way out, that everything would be GUI based. The answer is, um
by forkandwait 15y ago
This reminds me of the feeling some had in the mid 1990s that command line interaction is on the way out, that everything would be GUI based. The answer is, um, no.
The link has a more interesting (and not so black and white) discussion about files, abstraction, and the cloud.
- ugh 15y agoCLI is out. A large majority of people do not use it. You can still ride horses (and for good reasons!). Doesn’t mean that horses are not out.
- forkandwait 15y agoCLI is so not out. Perhaps among (l)users and Visual Studio types but not among the thousands of people who keep the internet running.
- ugh 15y agoExactly, thousands of people. I don’t know how many users of computing devices there are in the world but I’m fairly certain that you would use billion in a description of them.
- amalcon 15y agoIn absolute terms, there are probably more command-line users today than there were in the 1990's...
- forkandwait 15y agoI hate to be snotty, but one experience Unix CLI user is worth at least 100 clicky clicky administrative assistants... just saying
- scott_s 15y agoThere once was a time that if you used a computer, you used the command line. But that has not been the case for a long, long time. That's the meaning of "out" that was meant.