Dave's Paper Notes: A Tutorial for the Sam Command Language - ratfactor

Sam is an interesting text editor by Rob Pike. This paper is a brief tutorial for the command language used by the editor. I got a lot out of reading this 14 page document. Mostly regarding language design. The first insight from the paper is the idea of language idioms. Of course, all languages have idioms, and we often speak of idiomatic solutions to problems, as in, "The idiomatic way to do thi