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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by bradknowles on Sunday April 15, 2018 @11:43PM (#16846528)
It doesn't have to actually be CLI. It does need to be repeatable (by you) and reproducible (by others), and it does need to go through a known API.

Those requirements will tend to drive you towards a CLI solution as the easiest/best available, but if you could get those requirements satisfied in any other programmatic way, then I think you'd probably be okay.

But then the problem becomes, can you do programming from the GUI? I think that's actually a lot harder to do.

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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by joe_the_user on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:49PM (#16852108)
Those requirements will tend to drive you towards a CLI solution as the easiest/best available, but if you could get those requirements satisfied in any other programmatic way, then I think you'd probably be okay.

Theoretically you can do these some other way. In practice, the CLI is the only way that's remained. The thing with the CLI is it is quite easy to a new component to it whereas someone creating a little app for a little task as a GUI tends to create a "cul-de-sac", stovepipe, a program with not relation to any other program.

So third approach would be great but it doesn't seem to be getting any closer.

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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by CyberDildonics on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:18PM (#16854906)
Programs like Nuke, Houdini and Touch Designer have been doing this for years specific to graphics - this is trying to be more generalized:

https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/la...

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Re:You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI by Izkata on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:12PM (#16854221)
SikuliX is halfway between CLI and GUI: https://avleonov.com/2017/02/13/sikulix-the-last-chance-for-...
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