On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:58:44AM -0400, Anne Judge wrote:
I don't believe the vast majority of people can remember a command used only a couple times a year. I can't, and I'm generally considered to have above-average memory. And looking things up every time you need them, when you have an instant but different method of accomplishing the same thing, is a waste of time, in my opinion.
Most of us can't remember all the commands, and certainly not all their many options. I'm too lazy to even try; I figure if I'm going to perform a task more than once, however frequently or infrequently, I'll teach it to the computer, in the form of a script, or alias, or whatever. The ability to easily encapsulate commands, or series of them, is why many of us prefer CLIs to GUIs.
I know the converse opinion intimately; if my wife could type her email with a mouse, I'm sure she'd prefer to do it that way... :)
Jim