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ux266478 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

A shell is perfectly useful on a touchscreen device.

> a 50 year old computing model onto a phone

What? Do you think command lines are based on the lambda calculus or something?

uint32_t 5 months ago | [–]

Lambda calculus was more like 90 years ago

charcircuit 5 months ago | [–]

50 years ago people interacted with computers using actual terminals.

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