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Art of illusion uninstall6/6/2023 ![]() He was talking about ways of programming computers that offer the power of the CLI and that transcend writing software in text files. ![]() Kay’s “real guitar” isn’t the CLI-not exactly. Most people today don’t know what the command line is, much less why they would want to bother with it.Īs computing pioneer Alan Kay said in a 2017 interview, “Because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that ‘Guitar Hero’ is the same as a real guitar.” On many devices, there is no command-line access at all, in part because it goes against the corporate interests of walled gardens and app stores. They could either help you solve your problem, or at least provide some moral support and camaraderie.įorty years later, computers have become so much more accessible to everyone, often at the expense of low-level end user control. ![]() Help came in the form of thick, spiral-bound manuals.īut if you were lucky enough to have internet access, you could get help from Usenet-an early internet community filled with other people who were just as frustrated as you were. In the 1980s, if you wanted a personal computer to do something for you, you needed to know what to type when confronted with C:\> or ~$. Join us on Discord if you want to discuss the guide or CLI design. Thanks to Andreas Jansson for early contributions, and Andrew Reitz, Ashley Williams, Brendan Falk, Chester Ramey, Dj Walker-Morgan, Jacob Maine, James Coglan, Michael Dwan, and Steve Klabnik for reviewing drafts. Technical Writer at Squarespace, O’Reilly contributor.Į by Mark Hurrell. AuthorsĮngineer at Squarespace, co-creator of Docker FirshmanĬo-creator Replicate, co-creator of Docker Tashianĭeveloper Advocate at Smallstep, first engineer at Zipcar, co-founder Trove. Command Line Interface Guidelines ContentsĪn open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
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