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Reminds me of Rob Pike's wonderful talk "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant", especially of this bit: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ED1ygY2Imf
It's easy to see designs as inevitable. But Larry Tesler - one of the originators of word processing - actually brought about a change in _when_ we specify commands. Should actions precede objects, or vice versa? Tesler flipped this, after much thought! https://github.com/devinmcgloin/theory/blob/master/worrydream/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20History%20of%20Modeless%20Text%20Editing%20and%20Cut-Copy-Paste.pdf …pic.twitter.com/XUACgXZTq7
"Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination."
Noun-verb is also nicer for auto-complete when programming. In C or Lisp there are a gazillion top level functions so verb completion doesn't buy you much, but in Java you first pick the noun from a small set so completion works well, and then you pick a verb from a small set
Just highlighting this flow chart showing the evolution of text editing syntax.pic.twitter.com/Ja23GK7u52
Larry Tesler's piece on the origination of "copy and paste." "Before the computer age, the term cut and paste was publishing industry jargon. The term copy and paste appears to have originated in Gypsy [software]....When I make a copy-paste error...I have nobody else to blame."pic.twitter.com/5H00SK1PBD
Checkout kakoune for a vi-like editor that follows this paradigm:https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
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