Command Line Interfaces

Taí um artigo que eu gostaria de ter escrito. Mas já o fizeram muito bem em http://www.antoarts.com/designing-command-line-interfaces/. Recomendo que leiam.

Alguns excertos:

• "Ease of automation: Most command-line interfaces can easily be automated using scripts."
• "Fast startup times: Most command-line interfaces beat their graphical counterparts several times at startup time"
• "Easier to use remotely: Maybe it’s just me, but I prefer to remotely control computers via SSH over VNC"
• "Higher efficiency: Being able to do a lot by just typing some characters instead of searching in menus increases the efficiency which you are able to do work at"
• Try to avoid interactivity 
• Name the program correctly
• Follow the CLI conventions on arguments
• "Provide --version and --help"
• "If a program has nothing of importance to say, then be quiet"
• "Every program should do one, and only one thing, and do it well"