> Granted, we’ve developed graphical user interfaces that keep “ordinary users” away from the command line, but we still expect “serious developers” to drop down into a demonstrably inhumane environment to get anything meaningful done.

Maybe I am too familiar with it, but I have yet to encounter a graphical environment that matches the effectiveness of the terminal and command line programs. I saw systems, that tried to replace shell one-liners with a hundred thousand line GUI application, that no one cared to use.