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Re:Rich Command Shells by akavel on Friday October 10, 2014 @07:24AM (#8437189)
But, again, why? this can still have many reasons: not willing because of technological obstacles? complexity? because they shown in fact to be somehow worse? (e.g. pure text easier to read, mold, and more universal?) because of some social obstacles? (if yes, of what kind?) what else could that be? (those are just a few of my random quick theories, have I described all possibilities?)

edit: the comment by zorbo seems an interesting answer to my question, but I'm still not 100% convinced; also, I must still ask how can we be sure we're not victims of a text-mode "Stockholm Syndrome" in this regard?

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Re:Rich Command Shells by pjmlp on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:26AM (#8437347)
Because the majority of those people never had the opportunity to work with Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Oberon, Amiga,...

So they look around and see only UNIX CLI.

It is just like mankind during the middle ages that never experienced how the Roman and Greek society were developed before the empire downfall.

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