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TUI and CLI are not the same thing. TUI is a GUI, and GUIs have never been composable.
by WD-42 1y ago
TUI and CLI are not the same thing. TUI is a GUI, and GUIs have never been composable.
- jolmg 1y agoI think they understand that. They're saying they dislike TUIs and prefer CLIs because CLIs are composable.
- somat 1y ago> and GUIs have never been composable. Sure they have, or at least it has been tried. I think it turns out to be such a hard problem to solve that it degrades into proper programing much faster than a cli where pipes can carry hard. Some examples: The first xerox alto interface. smalltalk Microsofts OLE