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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
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On 6/8/2024 5:43 AM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On 08/06/2024 09:21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 01:40:48 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/7/24 19:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:32:26 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ... POSIX is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems.
>>>>
>>>> You’re right. It’s not. Linux is.
>>>
>>> ... even I'm not foolish enough to make such a claim for Linux.
>>
>> I wouldn’t have been either, say, 20 years ago. But it’s now become quite
>> clear that it dominates everywhere except the desktop. And if you 
>> think of
>> fully-featured “workstation” OSes instead of cut-down “desktop” OSes, 
>> then
>> Linux dominates there, too.
> 
> As a developer, Linux is great. Its so much easier to work with than 
> Winfows. Just little things. You ca. tun a text editor from the 
> commandline, write a little scratch program, and compile with gcc and 
> test it. With Windows you are fiddling about with an IDE, then you've 
> got to coax it into compiling "hello world" by turning deprecation off. 
> printf insecure ie something.

Well, on windows you can just run notepad? ;^D

> 
> But it's just no good for consumer software. Ganes are no fun without 
> sound. But it took about an afternoon to add fantastic audio to Baby X 
> Windows, which inclues an MPEG codec, I just couldn't work out gow to do 
> it on Linux in any way that wouln't break.
>