why Unix?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Denis Koroskin 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!
> 

I remember having used FAR back in the day... it was fun. But then I 
feel there's a disconnect somewhere in the dialog. Will, for example, 
FAR take a text file, create a dictionary with its words, assign a 
unique number to each word in decreasing order of frequency, and output 
a file with each word replaced with its number?


Andrei