"Doran L. Barton" <f...@iodynamics.com> writes: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 13:14:48 Charles Curley wrote: >> http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/035550.html >> >> The lady makes some very good points. > > There are parts of this letter that made me want to go back and read Neal > Stephenson's book/essay "In the beginning... was the command line." It's > dated, but still quite relevant:
Well, the author, as of 2003, said in his 'Juvenilia' page that it was "badly obsolete and probably needs a thorough revision." He also noted that, at that point, he had been using Mac OS X almost exclusively for a couple of years. Sounds like he came to the same conclusion as the writer of the original article. You might be interested in this annotated response to the essay: http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/index.html It's also getting old, but I agree with his conclusion at the end. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
