Star Simpson

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".

Probably just as good as "curses"

You mean like, non-imperative paradigms? There's dataflow & constraint programming, both more human-friendly but often ghettoized

Not really. I think this could possibly be as facile as imperatives structures as requests. Like an extension of "try..catch" forms

Yeah sorry now I read the whole thread and I see where you're going with it

Now that I think about it, a conversation metaphor especially makes sense over network boundaries. Fits imperative rather poorly