Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 9/2/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Done! And CLI Clint goes and surfs the n.g. while GUI Gus has just gotten to
> picture 4, only 996 more to go!

Some GUI apps have macro features, or batch processing. Take a look at
IrfanView for image batch conversion:

http://i.imgur.com/JrQqdi0.png

Now imagine if this was a CLI program. You'd have to use hundreds of
switches, and it wouldn't be obvious what each switch does at a
glance. It even has keyboard shortcuts, you press 'b' and you get the
batch dialog, click, click, done.

Don't get me started on CLI programs where you have to use the damn
space bar to go through all the --help options because it comes on
multiple pages, or where switches have really funky syntax, and let's
not forget escaping rules and paths or names with spaces.

It's just as bad as a poorly designed GUI app.