I remember this rant!
I remember this rant! I was chuckling about how superior Tenex (and later TOPS-20) was from UNIX and the article in Datamation really spoke to me. No esc command completion, no typing a '?' and seeing all the possible completions, no ^T to give you an update on what your process was currently doing. UNIX totally sucks at all of that. Of course once you have trained your fingers you don't think about it any more. I missed that the first time around. This author does too of course, and so did a huge part of the industry. So many things were written with all sorts of discoverable features and helper stuff and the truth was that a lot of them can't get out of your way once your fingers know what to type! You can get so far and then you hit a wall, you have to walk through the "feature" that is no longer useful to you as an experienced user, because there is no way to get rid of it. That is when you start to appreciate the minimal design. And loathe the very things that this article holds up as grand design truths. That is the secret of the success of the simple shell syntax.
Posted by ChuckMcM on May 17, 2015, 5:11 AM
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I mean that's the problem though.
I've always believed the opposite: get conditionals deep in your code so that the higher level control flow is regular.
The biggest problem with AI isn't being able to do things.
I am a 3D printing maker type nerd (I make my own tools for other creative tasks, rather than as their own outcomes) and I saw an incredi...
Of course not, those are clearly scams.
Claude makes more detailed plans that seem better if you just skim them, but when analyzed, has a lot of errors, usually.
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I remember this rant!
I remember this rant! I was chuckling about how superior Tenex (and later TOPS-20) was from UNIX and the article in Datamation really spoke to me. No esc command completion, no typing a '?' and seeing all the possible completions, no ^T to give you an update on what your process was currently doing. UNIX totally sucks at all of that. Of course once you have trained your fingers you don't think about it any more. I missed that the first time around. This author does too of course, and so did a huge part of the industry. So many things were written with all sorts of discoverable features and helper stuff and the truth was that a lot of them can't get out of your way once your fingers know what to type! You can get so far and then you hit a wall, you have to walk through the "feature" that is no longer useful to you as an experienced user, because there is no way to get rid of it. That is when you start to appreciate the minimal design. And loathe the very things that this article holds up as grand design truths. That is the secret of the success of the simple shell syntax.
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