Perhaps this discussion should return to topic (communicating between humans with common interests over extremely diverse languages and environments). Facilitating communication with hardware should be a discussed as a separate topic. Jim - Deliberately posted on top.
On Mar 21, 2021, at 1:22 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
...not to mention that all mature networks are moving more towards GUI front ends for their automated network. As the complexity of a network increases, CLI access becomes considerably more risky.
The idea that "real engineers use the CLI" is dinosaur thinking that will eventually land those with that philosophy out of a job. Just my personal $.02 (though I'm certainly not alone in my opinion).
real engineers write code to do it. and gooeys get in the way something awful. remember cascade?