On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM, John Maher <jo...@rotair.com> wrote:
> Text based > operating systems will be obsolete. Errr, what? Have google, amazon, facebook, etc. all changed while I wasn't looking? > But JCL was junk while it was still in use. So what does that have to do with bourne shell or bash or the underlying tools they can drive? > was used only because that had to, not because it was any good. Command > line interfaces, text based oses and the mouse are all going bye-bye. > Its just a matter of time. May be in my lifetime, may not be, I don't > care. I am focusing my attention on the future, not the past otherwise > I could get a high paying job doing cobol since those guys are in > demand. But I don't want to work with a dead language even if it won't > die in my lifetime. I'm looking ahead. I suspect quite a lot of the world would come to a grinding halt if the commands executed by bourne-like shells stopped working - and that's likely to be true for years to come. You'd even find more than a little of it in OSX if you look under the covers. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com