I always used to think ln's argument order was totally counterintuitive too. Then I realised that they might have done it that way to account for the case where

I always used to think ln's argument order was totally counterintuitive too. Then I realised that they might have done it that way to account for the case where you only give one argument. If you use `ln <targetpath>` without a link path, it will make a link in the current directory with the same name as the target file. This way, in both cases, the target is the first argument.