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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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...
Language designers can come up with features targeting the common user, it is just that new idioms must be added in the language like implementing a certain task in different terms. For example, copy and paste can modified from binary to a unary involving two separate steps.