11 Dec
2011
11 Dec
'11
6:23 a.m.
On 10 December 2011 21:45, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:23:54 +0000
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, absolutely!
A friend who rented a room off me for a couple of years wa s the first
to say this to me. I would often go to him with Linux problems and
queries and it took him quite some time to wrap his head around the
idea that I was powerfully averse to scripting and coding. It is very
alien to the Unix mindset, which is, yes, by programmers for
programmers. This makes it sometimes very unfriendly to
non-programmers.
As this particular friend said to me: "it is only now that I am
starting to understand how /deeply/ bizarre some of this stuff must
seem to you, as a non-programmer!"
I think writing a small program to do what would
take a single command
on almost any other CLI OS I have ever used illustrates my point
rather well...!
Yes. And this is no surprise, given that Unix is an OS programmed
by
programmes who wanted a nice environment for programming. :-) BTW: A friend of mine knows all and everything about
Windows. But he
simply can't wrap his mind around Unix. Just like you.
:?D Hurrah! It is not just me!
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