Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Sun Mar 21 23:18:43 UTC 2021

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 at 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?