No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing on Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to Windows by Haskell developers... The implication is that Haskell developers (only/mainly) use *nix. I commented that if true this lack of Windows testing could limit the availability of Haskell to the largest market share of users.
------------------------------------------- > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal failures... > To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org > On 12-11-20 08:48 AM, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > It was also interesting to note a comment that most developers don't > > have access to a Windows machine for testing. With Windows at >90% of > > the computing market (Linux = 1.6%), this seems like a problem which > > might limit growth of Haskell usage. Just an observation. :-) > > There is a paradox in that sentence. > > The first sentence says, most developers don't have access to Windows > machines for > testing. But they have access to Linux machines. Then Windows machines must > be a scarcity > compared to Linux machines, no? So scarce, you even have difficulty borrowing > or renting. > > Then the next sentence says, the scarcity is the other way round, Linux > machines are scarce, > Windows machines are abundant. OK, so why is it so hard to access something > abundant, and > so easy to access something scarce? > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
