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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and UNIX in AmigaWorld 68030
Keywords: UNIX CBM 68030 "gangly"
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Date: 15 Dec 89 23:22:00 GMT
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In article <101.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>In article <476806de.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Steve Rehrauer writes:
>>VMS' command-language badly suffers from verbose syntax and
>>excessive "slashism"
>
>What's your point?  [*]

(You mean I have to have one to post something?  Uh-oh... ;-)
Simply that while VMS' "verb noun" structure is easier to learn, it
soon becomes cumbersome, IMHO.  (Similar, though to a lesser degree, to
how I feel about point & click interfaces to an OS; they're wonderful
hand-holders, but eventually, *for most tasks*, I much prefer a decent
CLI.)

Once again, I do *NOT* defend the level of obscurity in Unix commands.

> If I want to "SHOW" something
>under UNIX I have to figure out what command to use; the search space is
>the entire (C) or (1) section of the manual, plus others.  I might need
>ps, stty, who, vmstat, netstat, or any of a couple of dozen other
>commands.  "SHOW" under VMS collects those things together.

Point taken, but I still feel that's mostly a win when you're low on the
learning curve.

>[*] Read my tone as 'discussion', not 'flame'; that's how it's intended...

What, why, *splutter*, *blood pressure*, *ancestor impugnations*, ...  Oh.
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