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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by timthelion on Friday November 03, 2017 @06:52PM (#15622753)
I'm curios what you mean by this. I've been working on some software called textgraph [1] (not yet ready for use, and now internally renamed gradesta ) for a couple of years now, so anything with "graph" in it makes my ears perk up.

[1] http://timothy.hobbs.cz/tg/tg.html

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by agumonkey on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:04PM (#15622809)
the paint.net stacked history is similar to what was used in 3D studio max in the 90s. It was "cool" but too linear (it's a stack after all).

Other software like Houdini or Maya (or NR Shake) used DAG (acyclic graph) of operations to create an output scene/image. There the history isnt linear it's a bit of a multiverse, you can disconnect part of the graph, try new things, reconnect. Everything is there.

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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by icebraining on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:22AM (#15624439)
Like a modern version control system?
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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs by agumonkey on Saturday November 04, 2017 @07:33AM (#15624589)
It's the same underlying structure, replace commit by different kinds of operations.
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