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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@hipsterelectron I’m sure you have looked at it, but I’d be very curious to see comparisons with SCSU and BOCU. By the way, as a fun fact, Symbian stored all strings as SCSU
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@hipsterelectron oh! This is fascinating work. I’m going to dig into this very soon, this is of direct interest for me!
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@hipsterelectron yeah I just deleted because I try to not be too antagonistic.
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@atsuzaki but you’re absolutely right, I think in essence that it’s really important that there always be a programmatic way to do something, not just a gestural one.
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@atsuzaki this is a really important point. I do think I know of something which addresses this. You might check out the form driven interfaces of IBM OS/400. Basically, the entire UI is form/menu driven *but* forms always have an isomorphism between a CL (its shell language) and a form. So you can send someone a CL command but this is basically a sort of descriptor for a sort of GUI. I also think a lot of work here has unwittingly conflated text based and command line based UIs.
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@wolf480pl fair enough, not “text” though
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@hipsterelectron working on this!
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.@hipsterelectron real eye opening moment for me was realizing that some people just enjoy the obtuseness. The Unix Hater’s Handbook is as relevant as ever and I hate that that culture effectively won in computing.
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.Also: as anyone who has followed my work will know, the “simplicity” of plain text is illusory. Like I recently saw a “text editor” that explicitly had RTL text “out of scope.” That’s not a text editor, that’s an English editor. You can make anything simple by being a cultural chauvinist!
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Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else.Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else. I constantly see obtuse command line interfaces that are worse in every way than simple GUI would be, but are preferred, I guess, on the grounds that that’s what the epic bigshot “coders” use.