📝CLIs expose interaction as first-class citizen

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§ Extensible system #reification

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CLIs are reified UIs – Expressions of Change

  • CLIs make interaction visible—the history of commands and their results are kept on screen.

  • Interactions are re-playable—you can copy-paste commands from anywhere.

  • History of commands is stored, you can search through it (or use it with C-r).

  • Interaction is scriptable.

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