Every new programmer should be advised to Avoid UNIX from the beginning. Look at the torture of learning a cryptic language like shell. The options are driving all crazy. The previous learners have taken upon themselves to impose the stupid shell on the youngsters. No one had made any attempt to rewrite a NEW shell with simple commands. Take the example of the command tar. Can't they rewrite it like this. archive inputfolder=currentfolder outputfile=somefile overwrite=yes
Once beginners avoid unix, it will teach a punishing lessons to companies like SUN and UNIX who will then agree to modify their behaviour. till that time, bye,bye Unix.
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Every new programmer should be advised to Avoid UNIX from the beginning. Look at the torture of learning a cryptic language like shell. The options are driving all crazy. The previous learners have taken upon themselves to impose the stupid shell on the youngsters. No one had made any attempt to rewrite a NEW shell with simple commands. Take the example of the command tar. Can't they rewrite it like this. archive inputfolder=currentfolder outputfile=somefile overwrite=yes Once beginners avoid unix, it will teach a punishing lessons to companies like SUN and UNIX who will then agree to modify their behaviour. till that time, bye,bye Unix.