Command Line and User Friendliness

Re:Command Line and User Friendliness by ricardobeat on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @11:52PM (#4046264)

I have no idea what you mean by "passing around objects", and I guess that wouldn't make it any more friendly. An "object" is an abstract concept that must be known beforehand, and is just one in a myriad that could exist in the context of interacting with a computer.

Have you heard of TermKit? It was an experiment in intertwining graphical and command-line interfaces: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/

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Re:Command Line and User Friendliness by underwater on Thursday May 31, 2012 @12:29AM (#4046377)

If I want to work with e output of ls, why do I need to manually parse fragile strings?

It would be neat to have basic stringable primatives, like maps and tables, that scripts could write and read.

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Re:Command Line and User Friendliness by ricardobeat on Thursday May 31, 2012 @01:52AM (#4046601)

You can't approach things from a programmer's perspective when thinking about interfaces. I mean, I see your point, but how would that make it any more user-friendly? More powerful, sure, but it would require an extra layer of abstraction, which is going in the directly opposite way of user-friendliness.

Besides, you already have all that right now, by using the dynamic language of your choice + file system APIs.

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