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lxe on June 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Is Code?

"If you’re old enough to remember DOS, you know what a command line is."

This is a joke right?

toephu2 on June 11, 2015 | [–]

why is it a joke? it's true.

baq on June 11, 2015 | | [–]

it's funny because it's true.

ad-hominem on June 11, 2015 | [–]

You may be surprised how many programmers don't use CLI. I have clients on windows machines that saw me running git commands in terminal and said "So glad we have a gui to manage this for us"

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