Unix and windows {Re: [ANN] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.3}

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Hi,

It’s also bloody useless for trying to do any real Windows
programming.

I fully respect your efforts and the culture in this discussion group.
Unfortunately, I use Windows because of I need to, not because I love
Bill Gates.

Please don’t fight a holly war between unix and windows. Sorry if this
offend you.

Thanks
Shannon

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I believe you missed his point. [I guess] His point was that CYGWIN is
“bloody useless” when it comes to doing real windows programming
as it is a set of unix apis ported to windows. If you want real
programming
you need VC or something of that ilk.

So he was berating Windows, just CYGWIN as a means of serious
windows development.

Regards,

Chris

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On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Shannon Fang wrote:

Hi,

It’s also bloody useless for trying to do any real Windows
programming.

I fully respect your efforts and the culture in this discussion group.
Unfortunately, I use Windows because of I need to, not because I love
Bill Gates.

Please don’t fight a holly war between unix and windows. Sorry if this
offend you.

3

Hi, Shannon.

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At 10:07 PM 12/19/2002 +0900, you wrote:

Hi,

It’s also bloody useless for trying to do any real Windows
programming.

Please don’t fight a holly war between unix and windows. Sorry if this
offend you.

He was referring to using cygwin (www.cygwin.com), not using Windows.

There have been ongoing “discussions” in this group
about the relative merits of native windows vrs using
a “unix hack” under windows. Have a look in the
archive for more details.

-mark.

4

yes, but he was being off-topic on this list.
i regret i started this thread. let’s time i’ll use private email.

emmanuel

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On Thursday 19 December 2002 14:17, Chris Ross wrote:

I believe you missed his point. [I guess] His point was that CYGWIN is
“bloody useless” when it comes to doing real windows programming
as it is a set of unix apis ported to windows. If you want real
programming
you need VC or something of that ilk.

So he was berating Windows, just CYGWIN as a means of serious
windows development.

–
“Stop the world, I want to hop off!”
–Guy Bedos