Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers
by foolfoolz on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:42AM
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this is the most common. id say most people i’ve worked with start caring to learn the shell and dig into the os more around year 8 of their career
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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers
by pxc on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:27AM
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> id say most people i’ve worked with start caring to learn the shell and dig into the os more around year 8 of their career
That sounds tragically late to me. It represents a serious failure on the part of those who know and love the command line to make it accessible to newcomers, imo.
Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers
by foolfoolz on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:09PM
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nah it just shows how the valuable abstractions have moved up. i bet this 8 year mark will only get later over time until it disappears
Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers
by pxc on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:26PM
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Level of abstraction is largely orthogonal to the GUI/CLI divide, though.
nmcli is more abstract than ip+iw+wpa_supplicant, but it's no more or less abstract than any GUI network configuration widget.
The output of ls is no more or less abstract than the contents of a directory as displayed by a GUI file manager. It's the same metaphor and the same information displayed in two different formats.