So we were doing Computer Network revision.

our teacher asks,' what is another method except GUI to send mail?'

I know it is using terminal.
'Terminal' I replied.
'No, it was something else'
'Console'
'No, not that'
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'Command line?'
'Yes, that's it. That's what I m talking about'

FML!

- Mr, can you then please explain us the difference between the three?
- Sure. Command line is for the regular user, terminal is for hackers. Console is for games and is a completely different thing.

@gosubinit I was goimg to correct you on the console, had written a whole comment about it when I realised that there are thinks like game consoles xD

I'm confused here. Don't these words have different meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the terminal/ console is the device with a command line interface to communicate with a server. Hence why CLI programs are run through a "terminal emulator."

@rjedlin yes
In this context all three are the same, but she hard coded 'command line' in her memory that's why she rejected the above two

Powershell :p

CLI is CLI (vs GUI), not console or terminal. Have you ever heard of Console Interface or Terminal Interface? Or "Window Interface"?

I feel command line is more abstract in this sense.

Terminal is in the context of UNIX/Linux, a CLI is a Command Line Interface for a application, and what he talks about is a Command Line, the command with its arguments, which you type into the Command Prompt.

Terminal is predominant in the Server world because of the dominance of the UNIX GNU-Linux operating systems. CLI's are predominantly used by developers, thenceforth it derives from the Command Prompt of Windows. And if some Linux fanboy comes around and says "but muh devs use linux" yeah now but not then this stuff became popular. Linux crashed until 2011 when you unplugged an audiokable😂

You guys are missing the point. In that context, they all mean the same.

Thanks @gosubinit,
That's exactly my point