a note on order of arguements to systemctl command

[Garrett Holmstrom]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> The service command has a syntax like this:
> 
>  service servicename action
> 
> where as systemctl has a syntax like this:
> 
>  systemctl action servicename.service
> 
> This is inconvienient for the common case where more than one action is
> performed in sequence on the same service, since with the first ordering,
> one just hits the up arrow, ctrl-w, and then types the new action (with
> tab-completion).
> 
> With the systemctl order, one must first skip back over the first word,
> which due to the awesome emacsness of bash keybindings is more of a pain.
> 
> I'm not saying that systemctl's syntax needs to be changed. I am saying,
> however, that it's important to get the service command working with
> systemctl so that people can use that instead.

I'm of two minds here.  On the one hand it would be nice to preserve the 
long-standing syntax convention for the reason Matt described.  But on 
the other hand, putting the verb before the object seems to mesh well 
with how the English language usually works.