起初…是命令行
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson · 初版 1999 年
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为什么值得读
- 比虚构作品还要精彩的非虚构技术散文
- 将Unix比作硬核工业电钻的经典隐喻令人难忘
- 深刻探讨了命令行在现代图形界面下的独特价值
这是关于我们以计算机为中心的生活现状之艺术（与人造物）的“金玉良言”——当然，这出自一人之口。鉴于这“一人”是 Neal Stephenson——被《Newsweek》誉为“黑客海明威”、广受赞誉的小说家、实用主义者、预言家、对极客友好的哲学家，以及开创性文学作品（Snow Crash、Cryptonomicon 等）的全美畅销书作家——这番言论非常值得一听。Stephenson 的 In the Beginning...was the Command Line 既有条理严密的剖析，也有部分的宣泄吐槽，是一篇关于网络文化深刻、不羁且幽默的论作
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文章写得不错，但我认为Joel本该顺便引用一下Neal Stephenson的《在起初……有了命令行》（In the Beginning Was the Command Line）。
Decent article, but I think that Joel should have worked in a reference to Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" as well.
……SunView、X10R4、blit、gnot和perq都挺偏门罕见的。我倒挺喜欢perq。还有Ultrix。我觉得Stephenson有点越界脱轨了。连plan9的狂热粉丝都用GUI了。《在起初……有了命令行》（In the Beginning was the Command Line）写得更好些。
…SunView and X10R4 and the blit and gnot and perq are kind of out there. I liked the perq. And Ultrix. I think Stephenson has kind of walked off the reservation a bit. Even plan9 fanatics use a gui. "In the beginning was the command line" is better.
这让我想起Neal Stephenson那篇神作散文《在起初……有了命令行》（In the Beginning was the Command Line）[1]。在文中，他把Unix比作一种名为“Hole Hawg”的工业级强力电钻。“但我从未怪罪过Hole Hawg；我只怪自己。Hole Hawg之所以危险，是因为它完全照着……执行
This reminds me of that great essay by Neal Stephenson called "In the Beginning was the Command Line".[1] In it, he compares Unix to an industrial strength screwdriver called the "Hole Hawg". "But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what…
……成真。Negroponte还提出了“每个孩子一台笔记本电脑”（OLPC），但在智能手机的世界里已经失去了意义。我还想到了其他人，比如Neal Stephenson（他的非虚构作品太赞了，尤其是《在起初……有了命令行》以及他为《连线》写的关于给柬埔寨拉网线的那篇长篇专篇）。Stephenson的虚构小说也很棒，在赛博朋克领域能把William Gibson秒得渣都不剩，不过Gibson写书那会儿还没PC呢……
…fruition. Negroponte also came up with the One Laptop Per Child which lost it's relevance in a world of smartphones. Others I thought of were Neal Stephenson (his non-fiction works are awesome, especially In the Beginning... was the Command Line and that book-long article he wrote for Wired about wiring Cambodia). Stephenson's fiction is great too and puts William Gibson to shame when it comes to cyberpunk, but Gibson wrote his prior to the PC…
让我想起了Neal Stephenson那篇极棒的随笔《在起初……有了命令行》（In the Beginning Was the Command Line）。http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
Reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s great essay, ”In the Beginning Was the Command Line”. http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
……通过主导那个市场做到了这点）。比方说，如果索尼当年拿下了BeOS，并尝试走类似苹果那样的垂直整合路线，他们本来是有一战之力的。Neal Stephenson的《在起初……有了命令行》（In the Beginning Was the Command Line）里，对BeOS全盛时期有相当多有趣的观察。http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
…accomplished this by dominating that market). If Sony, for example, had gotten ahold of BeOS and tried to vertically integrate in a manner similar to Apple, they could have been a contender. Neal Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was the Command Line has quite a lot of interesting observations about BeOS during its prime. http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html