``We're watching someone who's never used Berkeley Unix.'' He sucked
in his breath and whispered, ``A heathen.''
--Cliff Stoll
The Cuckoo's Egg: tracking a spy through a maze of computer espionage
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The Command Line
Linux supports the notion of a command line
or a shell for the same reason that only children read books with only
pictures in them. Language, be it English or
something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish a
sufficiently broad range of tasks.
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