[plug] Andrew Furey quotes Bill Garrett

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:47, Andrew Furey wrote:
> Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same
> reason that only children read books with only pictures in them.
> Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible
> enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks.
>                           -- Bill Garrett

I'd like to recast this as:

    Linux supports a shell (command line) for the same reason that my
    child's picture book has words in it: so adults can use it too.

    The MS-Windows command line is to a shell as Dr Seuss is to poetry.

Cheers; Leon