On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:51:13AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I think you are being too harsh here. Such a question may come > > genuinely from someone who hasn't experienced the power of the > > CLI, which, once you've taken the firs step gently takes you > > to small one-liners, little loops and bigger and bigger programs. > > > > It has this seamless "growth path" which helps and entices > > its users to get better, something I miss from most GUIs, which > > rather tend to degrade the user to a click machine. I don't > > know whether this is inherent to GUIs or just the current > > "social convention" underlying actual GUIs. > > I think it's the same underlying reasons why programming languages are > almost universally represented as text: maybe it's just because of habit > or "social convention", but I think there's something more fundamental > at play, which make it very hard to make non-textual programming > languages (and maybe even formal systems in general).
Perhaps roughly 3k to 4k years of storing, transmitting and retrieving information in written form have a part in it. It may be a social convention, but by now it runs so deep that I'm convinced you'll find epigenetic traces of it in us humans. Cheers -- t
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