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It's really a tragedy that the same company - Microsoft - is the origin of the only reasonably successful business-focused programming environment (VBA) and the
by mseebach 15y ago
It's really a tragedy that the same company - Microsoft - is the origin of the only reasonably successful business-focused programming environment (VBA) and the notion that interacting with a computer through any other means than point-and-click - especially typing command and editing text files - is hard and is only for stupid geeks with bad hygiene.
- loso 15y agoMicrosoft is not responsible for people hating to type commands in the command line, early computing is. In the past you were forced to type commands to get anything done and a lot of people hated it. The introduction of the GUI made things "easy" for most people.
- mseebach 15y agoNo, they didn't invent it, and for the most part, GUIs are leaps and bounds better than CLIs. What I'm opposing is the notion that commands and text files are something to be scared of and shun, when there's nothing so hard in it that most regular office workers couldn't pick up the basics on a three day course. And Microsoft pushed that agenda very hard.