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		Someone on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... Running a shell in a GUI doesn't make it lose its "I am a CLI" property. That is a CLI.

eropple on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

I disagree. It's a REPL, but a REPL is not always a CLI.

(Frankly, most REPLs are smarter than shells. I go to irb way more than I do bash, these days.)

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