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@mentions @msimoni @coreload You can have graphical ways of representing lambdas. But then you move away from DM and your graphical objects are now symbols.

AFAIK no one has come up with a very elegant or efficient graphical language. Alphabets typically beat ideograms.

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@mentions @msimoni @coreload And recursion is particularly hard to represent graphically

If you mean supplement a graphical desktop with extra linguistic scripting. Then sure, I'm all for that. But desktop becomes diminishing vestigial part of the whole. \end

@mentions @msimoni @coreload As an example, there is no desktop gui we've seen so far, that can express an idea as complex and as useful as

rsync -avr --delete-after /path/to/data /path/to/backup

@mentions @msimoni @coreload (Sorry ... "Desktop metaphor gui")

@mentions @mentions@msimoni @coreload @threadreaderapp unroll