Linked by Greg Afinogenov on Wed 3rd Sep 2003 07:19 UTC
It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the merits of the command line, in an age where things like streaming video and Aqua are an integral part of our daily life. However, I do not think that typed-in commands must necessarily be consigned to the dustbin of computer history. Of course, I am not suggesting that we all drop X and Windows and pretend like we are living in the early eighties. The command line interface still has much to offer us, and many of its benefits simply cannot physically be emulated or even replaced by graphical ones.
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Take a modern language as a base. As a minimum the language must have built-in support for lists. Lambdas would also be nice. Python has both.
Now add some Visual Studio style syntax highlighting and code completion for function names *and* parameters, and some popup help for the parameters.
Combine this with some easy to use functions for day to day tasks, and you have something really cool.
There could be a simple version that runs in a terminal and a more complex version that has the above-mentioned popup-help, syntax highlighting, code folding and so on...
I really hope that somebody is working on something like this. I love the concept of the CLI, but I should not have to remember a million different and inconsitently named command line parameters and use an antiquated language like bash...