>> Yes, I've used SSH myself. It's quite neat that I can have an old 386
>> laptop sitting in a cupboard somewhere and operate it basically as if
>> I was sitting in front of it. On the other hand, would it be so hard
>> to do so with a less primitive interface?
>
> it's strange that I guy used to programming languages feels awkward
> about a text interface.

No, it feels awkward when you sit at a text terminal that's using ANSI 
escape codes to generate colours and block graphics characters to "draw" 
a "graphical" user interface. I mean, why not just have a /real/ 
graphical user interface?

> Notepad in all its glorious graphical user
> interface is much more featureless and rudimentar than vi on an old Unix
> terminal.

Sure. But that's because Notepad sucks beyond belief. ;-)

I'm not arguing that the CLI is useless. I'm arguing that ASCII-art 
"graphical" UIs are silly.

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