News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers. Parent comment

Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by foolfoolz on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:09PM (#35198979)
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
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by pxc on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:26PM (#35199231)
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]