On Mar 9, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Alexander Henry wrote:

> A VERY interesting article I found on /.!
>
> http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6282

I think if you read the article you will see that the argument is that, 
at least in some respects, the CLI can be more newbie friendly than the 
Windows GUI. Bash in it's default configuration together with the 
various unix tools is a particularly crufty and newbie hostile 
environment. The article reinforces this because the author extensively 
customized the CLI for his newbies. It is perfectly reasonable to 
advocate for the command line as a good UI for newbies at a high level 
of abstraction. It doesn't follow that any particular CLI, no matter 
how poorly implemented, is better than a well implemented GUI.  And 
make no mistake, the standard *nix interface is user and especially 
newbie hostile. It's crazy to have two distinct versions of regular 
expressions, both of them inconsistent with shell globing, to name an 
obvious and egregious example.

I've always been sort of amazed that no one has taken it upon 
themselves to fix the unix CLI. It's not like the problems aren't 
known. The man pages are full of UI errors.

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