Star Simpson

It's v difficult to compress these thoughts for twtr I'm just wondering if commanding language in some sense is a needless barrier to entry

And if perhaps in your social context you're more used to requests than commands, a programming language could be created in that context

Maybe this is all really out there or syntactic sugar or just too much social theory for real computing but hey, Twitter, just a thought

Basically this thought germinated when I did thishttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/380857763733073920 …

It was pretty much a whim at the time but I felt this huge relief when I "please !!" instead of "sudo !!" - it fit better as language

So what will this shell be called , maybe lovsh or something warm and fuzzy like that?

I'm not sure that request-based conversational patterns are strictly cast in a setting of feelings of love, per se

So maybe the shells name would be more along the lines of courteoush. Since it uses "please" and maybe a form of "nice" called "excuse me".

"if you could, would you open this text file and tell me if the contents have this string?"

I mean yes exactly - when you get a no here it's pretty much fine. Vs "your syntax is wrong and you're wrong, nothing works"

yeah. I think, if you're looking for more than syntactic changes to command-response,...

we tell machines what to do because we tell circuits what to do. It's a command because it's an instruction not a request