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"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie As someone who has been shell programming for the most of their life; I
by UNIXgod 14y ago
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie
As someone who has been shell programming for the most of their life; I really enjoyed that article. At the local ruby group I am invited to talk frequently on automation and depending on the group; remind the current generation on the sheer power they have at their fingertips.
It really is an empowering operating system. Yielding power of the user with minimal tokens and dependencies provides it's elegance and beauty in simplicity.
- jfb 14y agoI've been using Unix in some form or another since maybe 1986. It is an enormously effective lever. But the grody cruft isn't getting better -- there's an upper boundary on how happy I can be using it, but it's an aesthetic and not a technical one. Partly this is nostalgia, and partly it's diminishing marginal returns. Nothing that happens to me is going to be as jarring a leap into the future as sitting down in front of a PC RT was, and I guess that's sad.
- UNIXgod 14y agoI read your "http://homonculus.net/blog/2012/11/11/what-shell-should-i-use/ http://homonculus.net/blog/2012/11/11/what-shell-should-i-us... post. I wanted to comment though you may or may not be interested. I use ash (Almquist Sh) for my 'non-interactive' script executions. For interactive flow I use zsh. For root on my BSD boxes I use tcsh and bash on my Funtoo boxes simply because I don't care to alter or customize the root account. I would be interested in what your inferring to with reference to `grody cruft`.
- catenate 14y agoFor less grody cruft, and as a challenge to up your game, try layering plan9port or the Inferno VM over your *nix.