2008/3/25, Dave Korn: > Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: > > Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real > > industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known > > just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with > > Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or > > less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's > > not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? > > > > Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. > > > :) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I > couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and > sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using!
Best is that I'm in a high-tech, high-profile SW-HW company which is now doing windows only, and that I'm one of three of >2500 who knows a shell, emacs, coreutils, ... At least we have 3 other perl people. Not that the Windows tools are crap. They are GUI-wise by far superior. You cannot just automate them. Cygwin saved my deadlines a lot of times so far, even if I have to convert the prototypes to MSWin32 sometimes. And the real hairy stuff is still happening on secret Linux, RTLinux or VAX boxes or even weirder self-written transputer or Shark or StrongArm firmware. My latest server had to be protoyped on cygwin for two years, until I got permission for a real linux server. When we just could have valgrind's memchecker for windows/newlib at least ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/