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gambler on Oct 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 12 Factor CLI Apps

Command line is not the only HCI that can use text. Also, no one (except immense mental inertia) stops developers from producing serializable graphical interfaces.

Shorel on Oct 10, 2018 [–]

I think the macro language of WordPerfect 5.1 was one of the most awesome serializable interfaces ever.

And they scrapped it in WP6 for some shitty object oriented version that lacked all the "serializable workflow" of the previous one.

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