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by ricardobeat 5128 days ago
I have no idea what you mean by "passing around objects", and I guess that wouldn't make it any more friendly. An "object" is an abstract concept that must be known beforehand, and is just one in a myriad that could exist in the context of interacting with a computer.

Have you heard of TermKit? It was an experiment in intertwining graphical and command-line interfaces: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit/
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underwater 5128 days ago
If I want to work with e output of ls, why do I need to manually parse fragile strings?

It would be neat to have basic stringable primatives, like maps and tables, that scripts could write and read.

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ricardobeat 5127 days ago
You can't approach things from a programmer's perspective when thinking about interfaces. I mean, I see your point, but how would that make it any more user-friendly? More powerful, sure, but it would require an extra layer of abstraction, which is going in the directly opposite way of user-friendliness.

Besides, you already have all that right now, by using the dynamic language of your choice + file system APIs.

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