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GUIs give you a clear venue for exploration (click around), which is how kids dive into them.

CLI requires reading and writing, and usually in English — at the very least, Latin script.

I don't know how I would feel if I didn't grow on the CLI (back in the DOS days), but I'd say CLI is a faster way to do most things other than selecting by visual data (eg. find all images with mountains in this folder of 1000 files) — at some point, ML will help that bridge get crossed too.



Well true, but playing Police Quest somehow also just worked when it has a command line.




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