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Cars vs. musical instruments to GUIs vs CLIs is an analogy, it won't work in all scenarios, but I think it's a pretty good analogy for explaining how CLIs work
by 4ad 15y ago
Cars vs. musical instruments to GUIs vs CLIs is an analogy, it won't work in all scenarios, but I think it's a pretty good analogy for explaining how CLIs work for people that have never used them or think they are antiquated.
- ugh 15y agoIt's a bad anology if it excludes the majority of expression, though, isn't it? I'm not talking about some corner case here. Software seem too malleable to me to characterize it in such broad strokes.