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Thursday, January 20th, 2005

ITBWTCL 2k4

A while back, I read In the Beginning … Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson and I think it eventually led to overcoming my fear of the command line and learning to value a text-based interface for some tasks.

Garret Birkel wrote an interesting update and response to Neil’s work that I enjoyed reading. This update brings the discussion to 2004 is presented interspersed with the original essay: the format works well.

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