The point of view of the article is very personal, but it is true that UNIX smells text, and I like this feeling when I'm using Emacs or vim, org making a script with awk, grep and the rest of the family.<p>I'm not a programmer at all, I use the computer to do science, and I feel quite comfortable with the UNIX toolbox. I don't know why, but it just sounds right, even though it might be quite arcane. Yesterday I did, quite fast, some nice figures using, basically, grep, awk and gnuplot, and a little bit of dc to do some calculations. But it is true that this figure could have been done with python, IDL or anything else.<p>The article point of view might not reflect reality, but I liked its love for words.