A couple of years ago my mom, who is not very computer literate at all, asked me "why can't someone just invent a computer where you type in what program to run

A couple of years ago my mom, who is not very computer literate at all, asked me "why can't someone just invent a computer where you type in what program to run instead of hunting for menus and little pictures all the time?" There was a movement for several decades that assumed that _everyone_ is visually oriented, but there are many people who are still language oriented. Not everyone likes just picture-books.