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@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom there’s an underexplored thread in Markoff’s What The Dormouse Said about a very early split in computing about wanting users to learn command line “vocabularies” of commands, and simplification/ease of use (not necessarily dumbing down). I assume there’s a deeper literature about that, and how emacs (and excel?) became outliers (with maybe modern IDEs as sophisticated bridges between the two worlds?)