why Unix?

[Christopher Wright]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> ever heard of powershell? it is in fact a superior design for a shell 
> compared to most unix shells.

I have tried it briefly. Too briefly to give a good analysis of it.

The GUI is better than that of cmd.exe, but not anywhere near as good 
as, say, GNOME Terminal. (It's still fixed width, as I recall; just 
wider by default.)

Another issue is integrating it with existing utilities.

> also, have you ever heard of rush? http://rush.heroku.com/

It's an interesting concept. I think I'll try it out. But it has nothing 
to do with GUIs for housing shells.