"You guessed right: I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of 'In the beginning was the command line' is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely."
Given that Stephenson didn't stick with CLI himself, the repostings of "In the Beginning was the Command Line" really should have ended long ago.
(As an aside, the interview is worth a read, particularly his response to "In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?")
That is not surprising, you see the cargo cult in Linux circles about the "UNIX way", when the actual UNIX clones, those that actually descend from AT&T and BSD code linage, never followed it to the letter.
"You guessed right: I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of 'In the beginning was the command line' is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely."
Given that Stephenson didn't stick with CLI himself, the repostings of "In the Beginning was the Command Line" really should have ended long ago.
(As an aside, the interview is worth a read, particularly his response to "In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?")