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I think it's an OSX-ism. Most OSX devs I've seen treat their command-line utilities like their GUI utilities, with nice looking albeit chatty output. These ut

by gcr 14y ago

I think it's an OSX-ism. Most OSX devs I've seen treat their command-line utilities like their GUI utilities, with nice looking albeit chatty output. These utilities then get released into the Linux world, where they often work without any modification.

wisty 14y ago
Or it's just younger devs, who like to see something when they run their program.
- gcr 14y ago
  Yes, exactly this. I know I'm guilty of wanting to see something cool happen. :)