From (quickly) reading the article, it seems like "drudgery" would be a much more apropos word choice. Though given that he doesn't appear to describe how to do

From (quickly) reading the article, it seems like "drudgery" would be a much more apropos word choice. Though given that he doesn't appear to describe how to do so, maybe not. Where I agree with him is that there can be a tendency to make command line usage into something of a fetish; computer science should not be a command line competition. On the other hand, making effective use of command line tools will eventually help almost anyone doing computer scienciey things immensely. In summary (and possibly what the article was trying to say), students shouldn't feel embarrassed or intimidated by a complex series of command line invocations; eventually they may know what they all mean, but they're just a tool.