I don't know if the problem is text as much as it is the pissweak type system that the whole POSIX environment supports. The other big beef I have is with the t

I don't know if the problem is text as much as it is the pissweak type system that the whole POSIX environment supports. The other big beef I have is with the total donkey circus that are the interfaces to the various tools. They're ridden with terrible special cases and mutually contradictory parameters and only make sense to poor bastards like myself who've spent years using them to build ad-hoc programs.