Re: In The Beginning Was The Command Line
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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Interesting
Date: 2005-01-13 01:29 am (UTC)While I found that some of the essay detracted from the more technical aspects. I thought that your input was well placed, and I found the entire piece very thought provoking.
I'll be bringing in a used computer into my house shortly for the purposes of having a development machine, and this essay has convinced be to try a debian distrubution of linux installation.
Thanks.