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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 22:15 UTC (Thu) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by HelloWorld
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Worse is better


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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 9, 2011 12:23 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Except when worse is worse. Case in point that has been raised before here: the Windows Command Prompt. It's worse than xterm, the Linux console, and screen(1). It's also... worse.

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