Slightly tangential, but this is my favourite Gruber article (from 2004 - some would say he's been going downhill since then): http://daringfireball.net/2004/06

Slightly tangential, but this is my favourite Gruber article (from 2004 - some would say he's been going downhill since then): http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/location_field http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/location_field - "The Location field is the new Command Line". The article itself is mainly about the Win32 API (and Spolsky's excellent "How Microsoft lost the API War") but what you said about pseudo-CLIs made me think of it.