Doom as a tool for system administration by Dennis Chao.
From the webpage:
As I was listening to Anil talk about daemons spawning processes and sysadmins killing them, I thought, “What a great user interface!” Imagine running around with a shotgun blowing away your daemons and processes, never needing to type kill -9 again.
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In Doom: The Aftermath you will find some later references, the most recent being from 2004.
You will have better luck at the ACM Digital library entry for Doom as an interface for process management that lists 29 subsequent papers citing Chao’s work on Doom. Latest is 2015.
If system administration with a Doom interface sounds cool, imagine a Doom hacking interface.
I can drive a car but I don’t set the timing, adjust the fuel injection, program the exhaust controls to beat inspectors, etc.
A higher level of abstraction for tools carries a cost but advantages as well.
Imagine cadres of junior high/high school students competing in pen testing contests.
Learning a marketable skill and helping cash-strapped IT departments with security testing.
Isn’t that a win-win situation?