Keyboard Problem 1684

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:02:57 GMT, Nicholas Andrade

Thank you for taking the time to post this. It does help me understand better something that I had known before but forgot.

My Java teacher is anti-microsoft (and very intelligent -- he also is in e-mail contact with many of the Java pioneers and book writers). At some point in the past he said he had two routes to go: 1) web development, or 2) development using microsoft tools.

My point is that he chose web development, and did all his development on Apple Macs.

In clbutt, we deployed in the Unix environment. It was amazing to see him enter all sorts of Unix commands to get his task done. Like you said, batch searching, replacing, whatever, can be a lot faster in the command line environment.

I think it's great that underlying the Apple Mac OS is Unix. Hmm, what does Windows have for batch processing? I don't even know, probably making use of underlying DOS (which is probably underlying "virtually" now, not actually part of the OS?). There is something called "Windows Scripting Host" -- not sure if that would do that.

It would be nice (and a real shocker) to see Windows based on Unix. Probably not possible though, although if MS sees the pendulum start to swing towards Unix I bet they would do an about face just as they did with the Internet.

Oh well, I tried to make some sense in this post but I haven't had my cup of coffee yet ...

Journey