On May 23, 2012, at 09:48, John Walker wrote: > > ... The person, I think it was Mckown, says he likes Bash better, bu I can > see NO benefits to Unix. You can string things together via pipes into a > virtually incomprehensible mishmash of |'s \'s \\'s, >'s, etc. And you say > this is wonderful? Does this person know ANYTHING about ISPF? We can > programatically accomplish the same thing in a superior, self-documenting way > which does NOT require specail, arcane knowledge. How is THAT inferior? I > am not going to bash(no pun intended) anyone for being skilled enough to do > that. More power to you, but simplicity is vastly more important in the long > run than complexified and obscured command line prompts.
Having struggled a bit with ISPF dialogs, I found they were not self-documenting and do require special arcane knowledge. The cost/benefit ratio of learning UNIX shell syntax has seemed to me greater than that of ISPF dialog and panel syntax (which I had learned (very superficially) far earlier.) -- gil
