Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!ward
From: ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments
Message-ID: <6414@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 15:46:00 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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I just have to comment to Robert Snyder's #20140 in which he comments on
John Dvorak's ignorance of DOS for saying that Unix(tm) machines need
a user friendly shell, while DOS doesn't, then Robert's comment "What
does he think Command.COM is".
  I am a heavy DOS user, and casual Unix user, and I think "type" is
easier to remember than "cat"; "dir" easier than "ls", or even "dir /w"
than "lc".
  I like Unix.  I "appreciate it" for the environment it fulfills, but
I really can't see 10 million PC users preferring the cryptic Unix
commands to the more simple DOS commands.
  P.S. there's NOTHING wrong with cryptic - depending upon the USER - I
use APL, and PMATE is my favorite editor AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, in
which [S;$@X=1^@X>31^-M9IQR0L] is a program to scan an assembly source
program, and move any comment lines which aren't starting in column 1
but which start left of column 32, over so the ';' is in column 32.