Our society is weird in terms of how we publicly rewarding people.
This post is mainly inspired by
this post by Marco, about
Soulver, which has, in their words, a "word processor style interface". I view this as a way to avoid saying "Command Line", which it basically is.
I'm kind of surprised at this veneration - the concept is nothing new, as there's already as similar calculator built into Mac OS X and other Unix operating systems, called
bc, which is pretty much identical in functionality, with a few quirks.