There was a posting somewhere which referred to Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse.
I've read here and there about people who program in Lisp are more productive and ahead of the game. I believe Lisp can be viewed a functional oriented language, much like Haskell. I'm wondering about the productivity comparison between the two. But I digress. Just a little.
The body of the referenced page above refers a Lisp programmer forced into the world of Unix and similar. The rants are all reasonable, and provide food for thought on what to use for software development tools. All sources of possible future posts.
But what I wanted to record here was a quote from the same page referenced above:
"I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act." -- Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
This reinforces the concept that there might something better out there, something better than shell scripts and similar infrastructure. I work in Unix/Linux related environments. Perhaps it is time to broaden my horizons.