Re:The future of UI is text
by mitchtbaum on Sunday October 11, 2015 @01:21PM
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This question seems to point in this direction of changing our shell syntax from `vo` to `ov`, based on Jef Raskin's Humane Interface http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48051/how-to-extend-th... .. I imagine pluggable shell grammars would allow open ended exploration this way.
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I see this strongly related to many combinators in FP too.
(system command arguments)
flip -> (system arguments command) curry -> (system arguments) command
# and for the humane touch:
thread (system (completing-read)) (completing-read)
etc etc
Oh, and BTW, GUIs didn't buy ergonomy, sometimes you need to open an application then the data (aka /tweet "bla"), early systems had a simple 1:1 map 'type' 'program' with an 'open-with' intermediate. Then they added 1:N ... One day it will be a tiny Hindley-Milner unifier ;)