why Unix?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:19:40 +0400, Jussi Jumppanen <jussij at zeusedit.com> wrote:

> Jason House Wrote:
>
>> For example, as an emacs user, I can easilly program for an hour
>> without touching my mouse.
>
> I would say 'not using the mouse' is clear sign the programmer is
> coding using a programmer's editor and not a modern day IDE.
>
> I would also say many Windows programmers are completely lost
> without their IDE, and this can makes them less productive as a
> developer.
>
> They could make themselves better programmers by overcoming their
> addiction to the IDE.
>
>   http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html
>
> But programming on Windows without a mouse driven, language specific
> IDE, using nothing but the command line and a good editor is possible
> and really quite easy to do.
>
>> As a commandline utility, it can be combined with other stuff such
>> as ls, sort, grep, sed, awk, etc... I don't know if I'd start there
>> though...
>
> Replace ls with dir, download the Win32 version of grep, sed, awk
> and you can run all those tools just fine from the Windows command
> line, or from within any decent editor.
>
> You don't have to go to Unix to find the command line.
>

IDE has nothing to do with mouse. I am programming with both Visual Studio 2008 and Notepad++ (50/50) and almost never use a mouse.
Visual Studio is nothing, it's Visual Assist that boosts my performance. I use it very extensively, and all of its functionality is short-cut'ed.