why Unix?

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

Link?  Google gave me this: http://www.helpware.net/FAR/  which
doesn't seem to be what you are talking about.

--bb