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  • I’m excluding TUI’s because you’re right, they’re pretty different and share some of the ununiformity of GUIs. Still, the command line world remains vast and with that interface you can do a lot, and it is fairly uniform.

    there’s parameters

    That doesn’t change the uniformity of the interface. Of course every application will need different parameters. Now do they receive these different parameters via a similar and uniform interface? I say yes. I enter it via keyboard, and for the most part they all use space delimited flags, most of them hyphenated. I’d call that pretty uniform.

    To phrase it another way, if all GUIs started using the same names for all parameters, it remains non-uniform interface, and it wouldn’t solve 1% of the issue with GUIs.

    Out of curiosity, if you don’t see the CLI world as more uniform, why do you use it and for what benefit do you prefer it?