The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
hughrawlinson's review
4.0
This is an interesting historical summary of two tools that I hope you get to mostly avoid in your career. Using their base functionality (or whatever portion of them that you care to memorise) as an individual in your own terminal could be a good way to speed up your own tasks. In my experience as a senior software developer in 2020, these are not appropriate tools to use in a team setting, and this book helped me understand why.
Of course, the tools the book describe are unrelated to my rating! I found the book to be very informative, but quite dry reading. Additionally, it felt as if the authors were presenting the tools as if they were perfectly usable and ergonomic, and made no commentary on the idea that at one point they served a common need well but changes to computing over the decades have rendered them less than optimal from an ease of use perspective. Indeed, the authors seemed quite content with some of the more esoteric incantations.
Good book, four stars.
Of course, the tools the book describe are unrelated to my rating! I found the book to be very informative, but quite dry reading. Additionally, it felt as if the authors were presenting the tools as if they were perfectly usable and ergonomic, and made no commentary on the idea that at one point they served a common need well but changes to computing over the decades have rendered them less than optimal from an ease of use perspective. Indeed, the authors seemed quite content with some of the more esoteric incantations.
Good book, four stars.
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