Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 22:27 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by Cyberax
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

> That's the way Windows works. Sorry.

Thus my original point: I'll consider using PowerShell only after the critical issues I've identified are fixed. Until then, Unix shells (even running under Cygwin) are superior by far.

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 22:51 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

Windows exists in a parallel universe where at some moment soon a great wizard will appear and banish everything outside the Basic Multilingual Plane so that they can go back to UCS-2 where things were simpler (yet conveniently incompatible with stodgy old Unix).

People who are never going to be happy about LLP64, UTF-16, or various other arbitrary yet defensible differences from Unix will never be comfortable on Windows. This isn't even a religious war, it's some fundamental cultural difference just like the relationship between directions and time.

For me "bringing forward" a meeting will always make it sooner, and UTF-8 will always be the more intuitive and sensible encoding. So no Windows for me.