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CRPence wrote:
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I actually have a distaste for all of the cryptic & non-intuitive
*nix command line invocations. When I started on the AS/400 I saw
its CL as a vivid example in contrast, emphasizing just how poorly
*nix was cobbled together by engineers with no obvious common goal.
I realized then, that I would never go back to such a crappy
interface as what was offered by the command line of *nix shells.
Regards, Chuck
First, the cryptic command syntax has been addressed by GNU, which has
long form options on the commands.
Second, given the choice between, say, "sort --key=5,5 --reverse
--numeric-sort" and "sort -k5,5 -nr", I think most Unix programmers
would choose the latter.
I worked for years with S/38, AS/400, and iSeries. For me, working with
the Unix shell has been a real pleasure in comparison. One can write
powerful scripts in a clear, concise manner, and do powerful things
easily from the command line. Wikipedia has a good summary of Unix
philosophy, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy.
But I'll copy here some of the quotes from that page:
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." –
Dennis Ritchie
"UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as
that would also stop them from doing clever things." – Doug Gwyn
"Unix never says 'please'." – Rob Pike
"Unix is user-friendly. It just isn't promiscuous about which users it's
friendly with." – Steven King
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
– Henry Spencer
Cheers! Hans
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