cmd.exe is a terrible shell. The new Powershell Microsoft has is pretty nice. I like it more than Unix shells. I find passing objects between commands to be easier. Now Microsoft just needs to dump their console.
Bah, I used vi and LaTeX in college.
The study of physics doesn't need math. Humans were studying physics before they could talk. If I throw the rock this way it makes it to the tree. If I throw it a second way it makes it to that rock. I would consider that the study of physics.
A lot of maths were created by physicists to study physics. No physics were created to study maths.
"The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do." -- Gregory Bateson