Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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Enjoyed the article quite a bit and sympathise with a lot of the points made.
Try AppleScript. You can tie Applescript to shell scripts (and therefore other CLI scripting) and make them cross-launch each other. AppleScript Studio, available as a free download from connect.apple.com puts Applescript almost into the realm of it's own IDE.
There were some more assumptions that I disagreed with but many of them were of the "YMMV" variety so are not worth commenting on.
I tried BeOS back on PPC and enjoyed the fact it was faster than Mac OS 8 on the same hardware. Much more capable. But there were no apps worth talking about and quickly PPC became second string to x86 and I couldn't justify buying an x86 machine just to run BeOS.
I'm a breed of Mac OS user that has dumped the old way. I was Mac OS through and through but as of September I erased my dual boot (my OS9 folders) because frankly I don't need them any more. Mac OS X gives me what I need to do my job - something that Windows 2000 can't manage.