On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 04:22:54AM +0200, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > i must confess that i was heavy windows user and windows programmer > 'till 2002 (or something, i don't remember the exact date). i've seen > some *nix systems before, i even knew how to quit vi,
LOL... that must be one of the first things anyone learns when confronted with vi's inscrutable UI. :-P I was a big vi* hater for the longest time... until I was forced to use it at work (well OK, my supervisor talked me into it), but then I got hooked, and now I've acquired that twitch in my left little finger that periodically reaches for ESC, with or without reason. :-P > but was never using *nix OS as my primary one. and then i was forced > to move to GNU/Linux, 'cause my employer was not able to buy enough > windows licenses, and someone decides that it's time to throw windows > out of the window. ;-) That one deserves a quote from my quote file: English has the lovely word "defenestrate", meaning "to execute by throwing someone out a window", or more recently "to remove Windows from a computer and replace it with something useful". :-) -- John Cowan > and now i can't understand anymore why i was happy with windows. i > really love my terminal and all the power *nix utilities gave me! ;-) Yah, after I switched to Linux, it suddenly dawned on me that MSDOS was just a crippled cheap imitation of the *real* command prompt... I had been flying an paper airplane, and now I was in a real cockpit for the first time. It was both thrilling and kinda scary (I almost nuked my entire system with a mistyped `rm -rf` command, as I'm sure every *nix person has at least once in his life). But either way, that was it for me. Once you've been in a real airplane, you simply could never go back to paper airplanes anymore. It's not that I have anything against paper airplanes... but it's just... once you've tasted the real thing, you just can't settle for anything less. In many ways it's like D... in spite of all its niggling little problems, once I tasted the power of D, I just can't go back to C/C++ anymore. I used to take pride in being the resident C/C++ guru, but nowadays, doing C/C++ is like scratching on chalkboard. I'll do it if I have to (my employer pays me to do it, so I tolerate it), but I'd never do it again voluntarily. D has ruined my life; I just can't do C/C++ anymore. :-P T -- Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.