Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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I do not think a subset of a langue is a good comand line language. You will always have to learn the commands, the computer will never really "understand" you. And I dont think it would make sense to translate the commands to other languages. (it would make it a lot harder to find documantation over the internet)
Commands should be short, distinct, and they should mean something. (It is easyer to memorise "rm" if you know it stands for "remove"). A real language only causes confusion.