[smartmic]

It's easy to fall in love with someone who is young, hip and all that. When it comes done to work on my loved UNIX systems though, I still prefer to stay with the old-school tools given by coreutils et. al. They are a quasi-standard, I can rely on them and I always know what to expect. Better yet, I will find them on every system and can reduce my mental load to learn and internalize something new. Sure, they're not perfect, but these advantages trump the disadvantages, and it's all worked out pretty well for decades. Here, I don't have to chase the next bride.

[hinkley]

And yet, bash eventually replaced bourne shell (by having an sh-compatibility mode), and vim has replaced vi.

If you get anywhere in the neighborhood of a proper superset of the old application, we do occasionally retire the old ones.

[pdimitar]

I can say exactly the opposite and I have the collection of shell scripts to prove it -- the newish tools work better for me when doing a ton of scripting tasks.

So maybe don't project about "hip" or "young" because it does your otherwise decent argument a disservice.

[tambourine_man]

>It's easy to fall in love with someone who is young, hip and all that

>Here, I don't have to chase the next bride.

Who hurt you? :)