[Info-vax] Suggested DCL enhancement

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-11-10 18:42:50 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:

> On 11/10/20 11:26 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2020-11-10 13:45:09 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:
>> 
>>> On 11/4/2020 12:21 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 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.
> 
> The general trend for server management, devops, and, to a lesser 
> extent even development is definitely away from the GUI and back to the 
> command line.

I am exceedingly skeptical that command line interaction is the future. 
 As a stopgap, yes.

I'm seeing an approach similar to FILEVIEW on OpenVMS DECwindows, or a 
web GUI for various hosting providers, where somebody scripts 
something, and then that script is callable from or triggered by a 
controller app or by a user at a remote GUI.

All of what I'm seeing is headed away from the command line, save for 
those folks creating the apps.

Which is most of the folks responding here.



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