Peter Ross wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jason White wrote:
I've heard that the Windows command line still resembles DOS
Do we tend to be the people who (Trent about the Windows devs) "looked at unix ten or twenty years ago" | sed 's/unix/Microsoft/g') ? ;-)
Yes, I definitely am like that. For example, apparently nowadays video games require you to have an internet connection whenever you play them, instead of requiring you to have the install media in the drive whenever you play them. Apparently drivers sometimes ship with the OS, rather than having to install them all separately. et cetera.
Well, I knew about it back when it was called Monad, but I tend to dismiss it as uninteresting because I neither like nor "get" OO. I suppose it reminds me a bit of CommanderS: Commander S - The shell as a browser Martin Gasbichler and Eric Knauel Commander S is a new approach to interactive Unix shells based on interpretation of command output and cursor-oriented terminal programs. The user can easily refer to the output of previous commands when composing new command lines or use interactive viewers to further explore the command results. Commander S is extensible by plug-ins for parsing command output and for viewing command results interactively. The included job control avoids garbling of the terminal by informing the user in a separate widget and running background processes in separate terminals. Commander S is also an interactive front-end to scsh, the Scheme Shell, and it closely integrates Scheme evaluation with command execution. The paper also shows how Commander S employs techniques from object-oriented programming, concurrent programming, and functional programming techniques. http://www.deinprogramm.de/scheme-2005/05-knauel/05-knauel.pdf http://scsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scsh/commander-s/