Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 20:50 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by cortana
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

> You're complaining that the sort utility is useless because it can't sort every possible thing you would ever want it to sort. I'm saying that is a misunderstanding of what sort is supposed to do. It only sorts line-based data.
Yes, and the only reason it's so limited is that the Unix shell paradigm doesn't allow anything better. Which was the point all along. Is that so hard to understand?

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 22:15 UTC (Thu) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028) [Link] (1 responses)

Worse is better

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.