why Unix?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jussi Jumppanen 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.
> 

But all else is lacking, starting with a good shell. I guess it's 
possible with cygwin et al, but then it feels a bit artificial and 
second-hand.

Andrei