programming with passion

One of the things that I love the most about my Mac is the command line.  I know the Mac is well known for it’s beautiful user interface, but that doesn’t stop at the graphical user interface.  It extends to the command line user interface as well.  One of the advantages of being based on unix is that all the command line power that is available on unix is also available on the Mac.  I know microsoft has recently upgraded their command line abilities but they can’t really compete with decades of knowledge on command line usage on unix.  There were many times that I felt a little helpless on my windows box when I wanted to do something cool.  I felt helpless because a lot of the stuff I was interested was for unix only.  I do not usually experience that on my Mac.  The unix environment is just more naturally geared for the free software world.