Re: A few thing to note about tools
Of course, j-mart. You are absolutely right.
However, what I try to emphasize here is that the existence of CLI is not necessarily proving a OS to be superior to another as long as one can do the job no matter the tools provided by the OS.
Half of my years as IT guy I used CLI exclusively. And, this not because I loved it but because the OS didn't provide a GUI.
For AIX connoisseurs, AIX provided a superb text tool for administering the OS: smitty. You could do whatever you like in AIX just by using this menus - nothing else but a collection of scripts hidden behind a text interface for administration. Of course, you could see the command before running it, you could modify it etc. But, the idea is that you wouldn't need to write unending commands in CLI - most of the time forgetting parameters or mistyping or simply forgetting to add a dash or a comma or whatever. Of course, there were moments when you would prefer to write the command at the prompt but, 99% of the administrative tasks could be done by using that text interface only.
Later, smitty became smit - a GUI tool.
Now, I dare any professional from this forum to tell me that IBM's AIX is a bs OS.
I also dare anyone to tell me that I am less professional because - when administering an AIX server -, I prefer to use the GUI tool instead of tiring my fingers with non-sense typing of huge commands.
And, again, the existence or absence of CLI doesn't make an OS better or worst than another. THIS idea is BS. And, this is one point why I consider Jack's article as a collection of idiocies.
