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In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-up-with-things dept.

Unqualified code-monkey Garote submits his annotated version of Neal Stephenson's In The Beginning Was The Command Line, updated to discuss UI design theory and fill in some of the gaps from the last five years. (And yes, he has been granted permission from Neal to do this.) There's plenty more to cover of course: Will the command-line last only as long as the keyboard? How will desktop search technology change our workflow? What about the 3D interface? Scroll to any random paragraph in the essay and you'll find something worth expounding on. What's ahead for the next five years?

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  1. Re:I thought it was something else... by Criffer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Punch cards? You were lucky! All we had were toggle switches where you programmed individual bits; one at a time, until memory were full. All 512 bytes of it!

  2. I remember my ole cobol prof. by roegerle · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The only good thing about windows is I can run multiple sessions of DOS."

  3. Re:the command line already survived the keyboard by timster · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to specify "tea" so that it doesn't replicate up a grey Earl ("Earl, Grey")

    You have to specify "hot" because the company that makes the replicators lost a lawsuit.

    --
    I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.