Saturday, March 26, 2011

Command line life in microsoft

Before I joined microsoft, I expected to use all the fancy tools from microsoft, but it turned out it is not the case, at least in my department. We used visual studio as a nice editing tool and sometimes used it for debugging. But we still spent a lot of time in command line working with source repository and building etc. We also need to work a lot on windows shell script too.

I am totally fine with that -- I am used to working in command line and 90% of my time was spent in putty in yahoo. But windows command line env (even cygwin) is much worse than linux shell session; windows shell scripting is even worse than linux shell scripting. For the shell one, I do not want to complain too much as I think this is probably because I am not familiar with windows shell. But the command line env, I guess everybody should agree with me. It also lacks a lot of handy linux shell utilities. My productivity is at least 50% worse than linux ;=(

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