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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by eeZah7Ux on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:12PM (#15622242)
CLIs are powerful because, like programming languages, are close to human language.

Not surprisingly the following transitions happened in many industrial applications, complex vehicles, not to mention weapons (e.g. submarines):

"few knobs and dials" -> "airplane cockpit" -> airplane cockpit + keyboard and a simple CLI -> full scripting

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