GUI vs Text, I prefer text 80% of the time. Here's why: GUI's are often JATTL (Just Another Thing To Learn), buggy, ultimately based on text, provide only a subset of what's possible with text, difficult to audit, challenging to replay, 'browser' dependent, harder to maintain, obfuscate underlying processes, harder to read, ad prone, etc. However, an important 20% is tied to GUI's. I would no more want to give up GUIs, then I would want to return to punchcards. Gui's can be a useful entry point, with text available for the 'less faint of heart'.
All three articles you cite are still good reads, even four years later.
(I liked your recent '22 posts, and decided to check out your writings from the archive, This one seems to be the oldest available, tho)
GUI vs Text, I prefer text 80% of the time. Here's why: GUI's are often JATTL (Just Another Thing To Learn), buggy, ultimately based on text, provide only a subset of what's possible with text, difficult to audit, challenging to replay, 'browser' dependent, harder to maintain, obfuscate underlying processes, harder to read, ad prone, etc. However, an important 20% is tied to GUI's. I would no more want to give up GUIs, then I would want to return to punchcards. Gui's can be a useful entry point, with text available for the 'less faint of heart'.
All three articles you cite are still good reads, even four years later.
(I liked your recent '22 posts, and decided to check out your writings from the archive, This one seems to be the oldest available, tho)