What's incredible is that a lot of the time, GUI-based applications are only a smidgen more complicated than their command-line counterparts. Sad that your professor didn't seem to know this.
as he mentionned, this happened 17 years ago. While I never programmed the original Mac OS, I know that Win16 GUI programming wasn't the simplest thing ever at all - it was considerably more complicated that parsing a command line; you had to deal with message queues, pass pointers around with no nice OO interfaces.
