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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.160526.22081@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:05:26 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.003852.18788@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <1990Oct9.040256.12082@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Oct9.040256.12082@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

>I personally agonize when I have to dig into the
>UNIX man pages to track down exactly what I need to know to use a
>routine.

I think you misinterpreted what I said.  I certainly was not trying to
defend the unix _manuals_!  My point was that the programmer's interface
to the operating system is less confusing.  On both the Mac and unix side
a little supplementary reading is needed (or at least helpful).

>. The description is usually only useful as a reference for
>someone who already understands the routine and is just about useless to

The person who started this discussion stated he was a USER, not a
PROGRAMMER.  He then proceeded to criticize unix as an operating system.
I merely sought to point out that his complaints were with the user
interface, and not the underlying operating system.

>It's just a different way of thinking.

True.

>I'm a technology
>junky and for some perverse reason I enjoy exploring the never ending
>learning curve UNIX provides.

Me too.  I can certainly understand that most other people AREN'T like
this, though....

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