why Unix?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:41:39 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> 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

There is FAR, which is an amazing tool. Properly configured, it can do everything you will ever need. An it's Open-Source, too!