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minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 hours agoI can appreciate the desire for “you know what I meant” CLI interaction, but shudder at the verbosity of natural language in a lot of these cases.
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoI think there has to be a happy medium, but I guess it depends on personal preference. It’s not like brevity can’t be achieved through things like aliases anyway. I just want text-based computer stuff to look a little more like something Inform 7.
I can appreciate the desire for “you know what I meant” CLI interaction, but shudder at the verbosity of natural language in a lot of these cases.
I think there has to be a happy medium, but I guess it depends on personal preference. It’s not like brevity can’t be achieved through things like aliases anyway. I just want text-based computer stuff to look a little more like something Inform 7.