>It'd probably be useful to pick some other examples to discuss.
Maybe you can help with this, the author certainly didn't.
Let me try:
Firefox vs. Lynx
IDE vs. makefiles/make/compile
Word. vs Latex
Excel vs. ????
Outlook/Gmail vs. Pine?
Does one of those encourage expression over operation? Probably the closest is Latex, but still I don't see how it would be more expressive than what someone who spends equal time learning Word would accomplish with Word.
Because Lynx (except for its dump mode) and Pine address characters on the screen in two dimensions, I consider them to be graphical programs. They are just very limited graphics. There is a difference between a program which displays text on the screen and a program which prints its output to stdout.
Maybe you can help with this, the author certainly didn't.
Let me try:
Firefox vs. Lynx
IDE vs. makefiles/make/compile
Word. vs Latex
Excel vs. ????
Outlook/Gmail vs. Pine?
Does one of those encourage expression over operation? Probably the closest is Latex, but still I don't see how it would be more expressive than what someone who spends equal time learning Word would accomplish with Word.