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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Really these are just tools. All their components can be good and bad, and they can be used for good or ill.
It was ressurected though 2 years ago, Yay for ebay. I liked it so much I got a 2000 and a 1000 to go with it.
Between 82 and 86 I used CLI interfaces. In 87 I found the amiga. That was the only GUI I used until 93 - my amiga 500 died
In 95 I got a 386 with win 3.1. Since then I've used dozens of GUI - CDE of Sun and AIX, KDE, Gnome, Blackbox, the list is long. What amazes me is that after decades of CLI use, including VAX-VMS and older Unix, I am _still_ finding nifty things to do with CLI...even coupling CLI and GUI together to solve problems.