"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.722.1327291162.16222.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >I find it kind of funny that someone would use a *new* language to > support an *ancient* platform. If someone is still hacking with win9x > support I bet their dev environment is -- VC6.
While I agree 9x isn't worth supporting, calling it "ancient" is pure hyperbole. CP/M is ancient. ProDOS is arguably ancient. Hell, Win2 could even be called ancient. Win9x is just simply old/outdated. Christ, it includes an OS (WinMe) that's arguably *ONE* version prior to a version that's still heavily used - XP. (Hell, even Win98 was the version that *most* people used immediately prior to the still-heavily-used XP). I know I'm going all off on something that really is nitpicky, but misuse of grandiose words like "ancient", "epic", etc., to refer to fairly trivial matters is a bit of a pet peeve... (Hell, using "ancient" to refer to "computers more than 5-10 years old" is itself rather..."ancient".)