I appreciate people saying that it's like `cp` or `mount`, but in my head the natural order of thinking about this operation is reversed: it's "create a link to this file" not "make this file also known as this link." Hence two competing "gut feelings" about which should come first. It also doesn't help that commands like "alias" work the opposite direction ("make a new command that is actually this another command").

Anyway, it was really just an observation that I confuse this all the time, and I'm not the greenest Linux admin around. :)

@monsieuricon I think of it like cp/mv because the order is "existing thing" "new thing"