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Commands are not APIs, and an interactive shell is not a programming language. It's an interactive user interface that some of us spend significant portions of
by nknighthb 13y ago
Commands are not APIs, and an interactive shell is not a programming language. It's an interactive user interface that some of us spend significant portions of our lives dealing with. I no more want to type an API-like "list_files" command ten billion times than I want to have it take ten mouse clicks to launch an application.