Suppose you want to convert a bunch of pictures into icons.… - Erik Naggum

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Suppose you want to convert a bunch of pictures into icons. Suppose you know how to do that with one picture: you click on the file, "drag" it over to the icon-generating program, then "drop" it there. Repeat until thoroughly disgusted with the idiocy of the paradigm of direct manipulation. Suppose instead you were able to communicate your actual desire to the computer, in (gasp!) a language!

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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