Comments by "" (@arxaaron) on "Is the terminal still worth learning?" video.

  1. 🎉🎉🎉 YES YES YES to Celebrating the Terminal!! 🎉 🎉🎉 For all the reasons you stated and more! Having a standardized box full of familiar, simple, reliable, interoperable, consistent, and proven tools is where the REAL power of the User is realized.
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  2. Great video! I think this touched on all the items of value and advantage found in learning and using the Terminal / Shell. I'm semi-competent in shell programming, but I have to note that the syntax for shell scripting can be cryptic and inconsistent. I'm trying to learn enough python to use that for my command line script programs. Would be paradise if there were Bash libraries for clear text and IO handling -- the kind of approach that made ARexx such an easy to use and invaluable interprocess scripting language on the Amiga. ARexx was basically a library extended version of the Rexx language that was used for interprocess communications on mainframes, and in the Exec OS multitasking environment ARexx was brilliant. (: It let me fake it as a programmer for several years :).
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