I have been thinking about the paradigm of "commands" in programming, and whether softer/more 'polite' language could improve the machine UI
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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
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Basically this thought germinated when I did thishttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/380857763733073920 …
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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
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So what will this shell be called , maybe lovsh or something warm and fuzzy like that?
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I'm not sure that request-based conversational patterns are strictly cast in a setting of feelings of love, per se
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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".
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Probably just as good as "curses"
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I'm sure "fsck" is part of the "curses" shell.
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Yep. Conway's Law!
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If I'm understanding you, it's the digital equivalent of Sapir-Whorf that has the added benefit of bringing comps into our social fabric.
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Basically! cc
@timhwang
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Should be some old user studies of syntactic-saccharine languages like HyperCard
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My intutition is that too much syntactic sugar makes people feel like it's really easy, but ...
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... then when you try to say something complex and don't get the syntax exactly right => frustration, incomprehension.
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But I haven't done the research. Maybe UI folks like
@roboticwrestler@pgbovine etc. know the literature better.
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I think you’re onto something. Words have meaning, give context, and affect the way we think about things.
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