11 Dec
2011
11 Dec
'11
8:25 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 02:23:14PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
No, it is not just you. I'm sure there are plenty of people who just can't
really grok Unix. As well as people who just love it. ;-)
Fortunately, there is room for both of them.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On 10 December 2011 21:45, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at
unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
Yes, Unix evolved, among other things, as a tool hacked on by the folks
that where actually using it. And in those days, those weren't exactly
graphics designers, english majors or musicians. So it was build and
improved by programmers, sysops, researchers and so on to be a useful
tool for what they were doing.
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. 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. :-) 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!"
Hehe. If you are in the programmer/systems engineering mindset, it is
all perfectly logical and is in fact an incredible powerful tool. If you
are not ... well, old, bearded men mumbling incomprehensible things over
boiling and smoking cauldrons come to mind ;-)
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!