On Unix being the default system even today, the value of understanding the incumbent, and the amount of redundant work in a boot process: https://www.sicpers.info/2015/01/and-in-the-end-there-will-be-the-command-line/
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I've been experimenting with different pagination UIs.
It's so common to have arrows, but I've realised they're redundant here. When you have the adjacent values as well as the final value, you don't need > and >> arrows too.
Thoughts?
Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk.
(Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.)
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2009/03/the-drscheme-repl-isnt-the-one-in-emacs.html
When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default?
If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`).
I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.