why Unix?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:55:43 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> 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

Yes, given a cygwin installed and present in PATH. You can use your favorite unix tools then.