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[Rowland Smith <rowlandsmith AT cashi.us>]

I was a mac developer for about 10 years.  I didn't realize how useful 
the command line could be to a programmer until i went to work at IBM in 
1995, and had  to use OS/2 and then windoz.   I'd used command lines on 
Apple II and mainframes, but not very much.   I should have had a clue 
when Apple released their Macintosh Programmers Workshop (MPW), way back 
in the day, that gave developers a unix-like command line to work with.  
However, it was fairly expensive, and I didn't 'grok' it.

I've been using Linux for my development platform for about five years 
now - and as soon as I get a job, I'm going to start looking around for 
a used Macintosh G4 (<licking-lips>or if i get a *really* good job, a 
dual G5 with 2GB RAM</licking-lips> ) - I've used OSX on and off for the 
past few years, and it's very sweet.

Rowland



Ian Meyer wrote:

> me three
>
> the best thing is, IMHO, the coexistence between the command line and 
> GUI and GUI-ish Apple software...namely, AppleScript, and through it 
> just about everything Apple makes. I can ssh in and through the 
> "osascript" command, issue AppleScript commands to do various useful 
> and useless things (like make the computer talk >:) )
>
> i think that the existence of a command line doesn't make a good GUI 
> impossible at all....
>
> if memory serves me right, there was even a /. story a while back 
> about command lines being easier for completely new users to learn 
> than GUIs
>
> ~ian
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2004, at 2:29 PM, zman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> >
> > > With OS X you really do get the same command lines as Unix, and the
> > > best GUI as well.
> >
> >
> > I agree...
> >
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