Re:My experience (Score 1)

Guess what? that's the way the CLIs are.

Not always. As I mentioned, sqsh is a very good replacement.

Oracle is that way (sqlplus).

At least, you don't have to type:
>select * from anytable [enter]
>go [enter]
You have command history, command editing (not readline, though) and you can redirect its output to a file.

MS SQL Server is that way (isql/osql).

Not a surprise, given that Sql Server and Sybase were once the same program. Anyway, SQLSRV has Query Manager. I know it is a GUI tool, but since you are supposed to do things graphically in Windoze, it is the default query tool.

You ate a little too much red herring for breakfast.

:-) Not really. As I stated in the subject, this is my experience on migrating to Sybase, and I wanted to share it with /. readers