I was actually looking for another piece of writing from Thompson, Khernigan, or Ritchie which I recalled had a marvelously simple description of the power of command language as a computer interface. I found this instead and didn't see it submitted in the past (at least not with this URL.)<p>Edit: found some discussion from 2020. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235450">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235450</a>