> I think you are being too harsh here. Such a question may come
> genuinely from someone who hasn't experienced the power of the
> CLI, which, once you've taken the firs step gently takes you
> to small one-liners, little loops and bigger and bigger programs.
>
> It has this seamless "growth path" which helps and entices
> its users to get better, something I miss from most GUIs, which
> rather tend to degrade the user to a click machine. I don't
> know whether this is inherent to GUIs or just the current
> "social convention" underlying actual GUIs.
I think it's the same underlying reasons why programming languages are
almost universally represented as text: maybe it's just because of habit
or "social convention", but I think there's something more fundamental
at play, which make it very hard to make non-textual programming
languages (and maybe even formal systems in general).
Stefan
