On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 16:45:49 -0500,
Garrett Holmstrom <gholms(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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.
systemctl also allows multiple objects which service didn't. With multiple
objects it makes sense to put the action first.