what workspace is my terminal in?

[Skaperen]

i am more oriented to getting the output of commands as a data source due to much bash programming. i did that in Pike, too. i did it some even in C (i had string parsing down fairly solid in C). but making data structures in C made it feel like assembly since it was always function calls (i had my own mapping code, as a function using an AVL tree instead of a hash). my list code was a linked list implemented entirely as a big bunch of macros. at least it was very fast, even if it felt like coding assembly. i still feel the draw of assembly coding but i know its time is over.