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GUI with it's ability to display different fonts, provides much more capabilities, than restrictive character-based interface. Nevertheless the character interface is really important and considered classic from another point of view. Artists know well the saying "form liberates". In the same way puritan character interface liberates a programmer from spending too much time and effort on unimportant things and thus provides the possibility to spend most of the time implementing richer set of operations.

Paying too much attention/time/effort  to the "face makeup" is characteristic to Windows developers and often  negatively influence the core functionality of the product.

It's actually nice to have both keyboard interface capabilities and mouse-based drag and drop capabilities.  you can can consider composition on complex commands on command line as a special case of drag and drope, drag and drop that is missing in typical GUI-based interfaces.

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