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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
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Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view!
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:17:53 EST
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In article <839@kuling.UUCP> christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) writes:
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>Decide for yourself what commands, switches etc you want. Ask your local guru
>if there is programs that do those things, then write your own
>commandinterpreter that forks and execls. You'll have to learn have to do the
>things you want done, but then you could forget them, and use your own shell.

I knew that this argument  would I show up, yet I didn't mention it my
article to make it long.

You know one thing, Christer? Those days I was a student, which wasn't
very long ago, I had also had the time doing what I felt. These days
I could have spent my time write command interpreters for Unix or VMS
or ... you name it. 

I could continue in this way, but to keep it short:
If I have to write my own command interpreter to use an operating
system, then I refuse it. That is too much work. Specially when
it implies the learning of a language which I consider as obscure,
namely C.