Comments on: In The Beginning…Was the Command Line http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2012/08/13/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line/ A Life In Science Fiction Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Claire L. Evans http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2012/08/13/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line/#comment-1630 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:46:55 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/?p=766#comment-1630 Ha, I took that little sobriquet from the dust jacket of the book itself! I thought it was hilarious too!

]]> By: Paul Graham Raven http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2012/08/13/in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line/#comment-1629 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:40:26 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/?p=766#comment-1629 Thanks for this; do keep meaning to pick up … Command Line, alongside the new book of Stephenson’s essays.

One thing, though — and I say this as a fan of Stephenson! — the “Hacker’s Hemingway”? Given Ol’ Papa is best known for the brevity and terseness of his prose, and Stephenson, um, really *isn’t* known for the brevity and terseness of *his* prose… ;)

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