I repeatedly see many examples of aspects of software making full 360° cycles over time. Recently surfacing is the command line interface and it is coming back. I’ve always been a fan of command line; it lends itself well to repetitive and programmatic practices and has excellent ability to maintain history and promote process improvement (if used correctly).

I’m often seen reverting to a Cygwin prompt (typically in an XTerm Window – another technology that has made a reappearance in the shape of AJAX) to get stuff done. Repeatable. Reusable. Reliable. Command line: It’s the new black. (The last sentence borrowed from the Information Week article).

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