On 8 August 2014 02:57, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 16:53:57 UTC, Manu via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > >> Umm, I don't know what you're talking about exactly. But let me get this >> straight, it looks like you're saying you are annoyed that it didn't 'just >> work' out of the box? :P >> > > Yeah this is the inly compiler I have used so far where you can't just > type `cl.exe helloworld.c` after installation and expect it to not crash - > with an intention that you must use special environment wrapper before that > is never mentioned to you during installation. Yeah, the first I ever became aware about that environment script was when Walter pointed it out to me a few years ago. I've never encountered anybody try and use MSC from the command line in about 15 years professionally. That's what I mean about this culture; it's the opposite of linux, and it outright rejects practises that are linux-like. You're meant to open the .sln file and press the build button... >> > > I'll tell my scripts next time that all they need is to press a build > button, yeah > What's a script? Is that related to the command prompt? We left that behind in Windows95... ;)