On 2012-03-21, Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> Using the CLI is a language so it requires skill in a language other
> than English. Doing text messages is theoretically in English so it
> only requires enough English to know how to reduce it to texting
> abbreviations. Not bizzare once I thought of it in those terms.

Most CLIs are shells which use the same sort of Eng "texting
abbreviations" as cellphone texting. The command ls is short for
list, as in list the contents of this directory. The command rm is
short for remove, as in remove this file or directory. Hardly a
foreign language.

nb

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