Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, 2003 @12:21AM from the it's-a-long-long-way dept.

giampy writes "Joel Spolsky writes a review-like article on the last book of Eric S. Raymond (The Art of Unix Programming). His views on the cultural differences among Windows and Unix programmers are well explained. Overall, an interesting read." Also on the topic of Windows, badriram writes "Microsoft is reorganizing the windows team, it seems the are separating the OS core development. Seems like things heading in the right direction in creating a more secure OS, and making it more business oriented. Read the article here."

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Re:It's all about the shell! by bheer · 2003-12-16 00:36 · Score: 5, Informative

Check out Monad, the OO extendable command shell for Longhorn. Quite interesting.

Btw, on 2000 and XP (maybe 9x too), you can assign a shortcut to the command prompt, say Ctrl+Alt+S, so hitting that will get you a command prompt quickly. And enabling autocomplete to and QuickEdit and Insert modes on cmd.exe adds a lot to productivity too.

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