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
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Replying to @starsandrobots
And if perhaps in your social context you're more used to requests than commands, a programming language could be created in that context
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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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I'm sure "fsck" is part of the "curses" shell.
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