Tag: unix pipe
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Why is UNIX better for programming?
My Quora Answer : In practice, there are only two operating systems today with any real traction : Unix (including Linux, BSD, Android, MacOS etc.) and Windows. And from my point of view, Windows has two fundamental problems : 1) A lousy command-line terminal environment that a) doesn’t work in the “conventional” way that Unix…
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SmallTalk Unix
A quick thought I had a week or so ago on the “failure” of SmallTalk. What if SmallTalk hadn’t abandoned the file system? What if it had become the official graphical shell of Unix? Here : http://thoughtstorms.info/view/smalltalkunix