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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.111525.18568@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:15:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.075656.17526@rdg.dec.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug25.075656.17526@rdg.dec.com> goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:
- >>Each to their own.
- >
- >Basic UNIX isn't too friendly a development system. The commands are cryptic:
- >ls, grep, vi, cat. The editor vi is awful. The debugger has never heard of
- >windowing, even on a character cell terminal.
-
- UNIX is *not* user friendly... it is expert friendly. Once you
- have got to grips with the basics you hav a very powerful
- environment; e.g. piping output of one command into another,
- shell expanding filenames etc. With this sort of power, the expert
- is free to choose how his/her environment works, by building more
- powerful and tailoured commands from the basic ones.
-
- >With Ansi C Release 4, I've got a very pleasant development environment. The
- >debugger (which has some weaknesses) is windowing. !SrcEdit is !Edit with
- >extensions and is far superior to vi.
-
- I like the Archimedes; I have one! I like the windowing environment,
- but I don't like the filesystem, and the command line syntax is
- inferior to UNIX. Also what idiot decided that the backspace key
- would do nothing, and the delete key would do backspace ? He should
- be shot.
-
- >RISC OS command line can be a bit cryptic too: cat, dir, enumdir, type, list,
- >print (three commands that similar things?). Who can forget 'grope' which
- >appear as part of the developers toolkit, now defunct!
-
- >Still, I'm biased, I like the VMS command line: DIR, SET DEFAULT, TYPE, ED (I'm
- >a fan of EVE EDT), SEARCH, PRINT etc.
-
- Oh.
-
- --
- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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