Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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Some tools produce "command line transcripts" for all GUI operations. By examining these transcripts, you can build scripts, repeat complex ( GUI-wise ) tasks, save logs, ...
Maybe the GUI has two functions : Visualisation and Interface.
For many tasks, a graphical presentation is an essential feature. On the opposite, the Interface part can be for most tasks a hack on top of or in parallel with some background command line interpreter. Basically, all dialog boxes, wizards and menu items should be handled that way.