[Info-vax] Suggested DCL enhancement

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-11-10 13:45:09 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:

> On 11/4/2020 12:21 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> IDE usage and management UI usage and app user interface designs are 
>> all shifting developers and administrators and networking folks and 
>> end-users away from the command-line, too.
> 
> I have been doing devops on and QA automation on Linux and windows for 
> a while now, and I can assure you that it command line is the dominant 
> method used for actually getting stuff configured and doing functional 
> tests.
> 
> GUIs are find for end users at admins that have to deal with a few 
> systems, but when a small collection of systems to manage is at least 
> 100, anything requiring or using a GUI is PITA.   And I have been 
> routinely dealing with much higher numbers of systems.
> ...
> If you are designing a system or application to be managed with a GUI 
> instead of those methods, you are going to be hurting your market share.

What's the general trend? More command line? Or toward more automation 
and simpler interfaces?

All of what I'm seeing is trending toward GUI, toward web-managed 
interfaces, toward simpler, and toward automation.

Yes, with command-line underneath.









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