[Sussex] The Art of Unix Programming

[Mark Harrison]

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Subject: Re: [Sussex] The Art of Unix Programming
> Unix programming is better, its had a long time, a wide distribution and
> a larger development and user base than windows PERIOD.

OK - I'll bite :-)

Unix programming has a larger development and user base that windows???

Saying PERIOD after something does not always make it true. Do you have a
link to an independant site that has numbers for these things?


> Worldwide implementation and well over 25 years of delivery using Ideas
> and foundations and standards discussed and planned and implemented in
> that time. Not to aid the features driven marketing requirements of a
> corporation.

It's interesting. In my MBA, I was taught that the difference between sales
and marketing was that Sales was persuading customers to take your product,
and Marketing was listening to what customers actually wanted.

> Having written and developed in depth on both platforms all I can say
> speaking as a developer is the Unix mindset works very very well.

Having written and developed in depth on both platforms, I can say that BOTH
work well, but, as Geoff has so clearly outlined, only if you play to their
strengths.

Trying to make *n?x work like Windows is just as bad as trying to make
Windows work like *n?x. The key is programmer understanding of the target
architecture.

Mark