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Re^3: (OT) Your Dream OSby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Apr 14, 2012 at 07:58 UTC ( [id://965051]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Can you elaborate on liking cmd.exe ? In a nutshell, consistency; with simplicity coming a close second. I've effectively been using the same shell for 30 years. From MSDOS through OS/2 through NT to now. I am very familiar with both is possibilities and its limitations. Whilst it has gained a few new extensions here and there over the years, they have come slowly, and been consistent with what has gone before. Conversely, sit down at someone else's open *nix console and the first thing you need to do is work out which shell -- and which variant of that shell -- that is running. You then have to find out how it has been customised... The problems with *nix shells, are:
Many people will see one or more of these as advantages, but like sophisticated programmable editors, I've found that it is very easy to become overly dependent upon highly programmable shells. cmd.exe is powerful enough to do most every day tasks; but not powerful enough to warrant trying to do anything sophisticated; therefore very few people attempt to. That means that any applications that require proper programming are written in proper programming languages, and that is a good thing IMO. There is a far more powerful Windows shell available -- PowerShell -- but quite frankly, it drives me nuts. Have you ever read through someones CV where they've written it in normal English first, and then gone through it using a thesaurus and switched all the short words for the longest near synonym they could find in an attempt to make it seem "sophisticated". I think the design committee that came up with the PowerShell syntax were paid by the character. I guess what I am saying means I'm making a virtue of limited choice. But, think about cars or motorbikes or even airplanes. If you can drive one car, you can pretty much jump into any other car anywhere in the world and drive it away. You may wash the screen instead of signaling your intended direction for the first few attempts; but the major controls all work the same way. Same can be said for the other two. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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