How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Command Line,

You've always been told to write maintainable code. All of those fancy books on Extreme Programming and every computer science course you've ever had has emphasized commenting and clarity and all of those other broccoli-is-good-for-you-so-clean-your-plate directives. This article, and its second half, are about the opposite of that—unreadable code, inscrutable code, and disposable code. But, also, indispensable code. It is the editor we will use that will be the dominating factor in the way we write our code, however, and that editor is the bash command line prompt. more »