From 10d197e17d10a89cd3a6e48651d746e993ea541e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Montanaro Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:28:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 26 years --- src/routes/_posts/mixing-guis-and-clis-on-windows.svx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/routes/_posts/mixing-guis-and-clis-on-windows.svx b/src/routes/_posts/mixing-guis-and-clis-on-windows.svx index 6fb5528..91885f8 100644 --- a/src/routes/_posts/mixing-guis-and-clis-on-windows.svx +++ b/src/routes/_posts/mixing-guis-and-clis-on-windows.svx @@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Another solution that was suggested to me recently (I think this is the more "ol Things like this really drive home to me how thoroughly Windows relegates the CLI to being a second-class citizen. In some ways it almost feels like some of the products of overly-optimistic 1960s-era futurism, like [designing a fighter jet without a machine gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II?useskin=vector) because we have guided missiles now, and _obviously_ those are better, right? But no, in fact it turns out that sometimes a gun was _actually_ preferable to a guided missile, because surprise! Different tools have different strengths and weaknesses. -Of course, if Microsoft had been in charge of the F-4 it would have [taken them 20 years](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/) finally add the machine gun, and when they did it would haved fired at a 30-degree angle off from the heading of the jet, so I guess we can be thankful that we aren't engaging in air-to-air dogfights with our terminal emulators, or something. +Of course, if Microsoft had been in charge of the F-4 it would have [taken them 26 years](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/) finally add the machine gun, and when they did it would haved fired at a 30-degree angle off from the heading of the jet, so I guess we can be thankful that we aren't engaging in air-to-air dogfights with our terminal emulators, or something.