Quote: noun-verb interaction with generic commands mirrors natural languages: many nouns for data, a few verbs for data transformations that are inherently complex; e.g., Xerox Star and Apple Macintosh
Topic: words in natural languages
Group: graphical user interface
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[In the Xerox Star/Apple Macintosh user interface] Noun-verb interaction together with generic commands encourages … actions (the "verbs"). This mirrors natural languages, in … data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of …
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