Command line interfaces are reified UIs

Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by partycoder on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:50PM (#15620535)

GUIs might be easy to use (e.g: IIS manager), but when you have to manage 50 machines, programability is important and automation becomes more important.

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by 1_2__4 on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:58PM (#15620596)

Yeah anytime someone says GUIs are “easier” my question is always “for what?”. Not because a CLI is always (or even usually, depending on how you slice it) superior, but because a GUI makes some things better and some things a lot worse. So many use cases are not “easier”, they’re harder.

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by digi_owl on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:34PM (#15620866)

And why, after so many years, MS introduced Powershell.

Now you can do a GUI-less Windows server install, as manage it completely over the CLI.

Never mind that with Windows 10 there is no damned way to tell Windows to request a new address from DHCP if the initial attempt failed. The only way to do so is via the CLI and ipconfig.

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by partycoder on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:50PM (#15621433)

Powershell is fine. However the Windows philosophy is different.

In Unix, "everything is a file", and what is not a file, is a program that can be configured or a CLI with arguments that can be passed in programatically.

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