On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai <tre...@vex.net> wrote:
> On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Clearly, since >90% of computers have Windows, it should be trivial to > find one to test on, if a programmer wants to. Surely every programmer is > surrounded by Windows-using family and friends? (Perhaps to the > programmer's dismay, too, because the perpetual "I've got a virus again, > can you help?" is so annoying?) We are not talking about BeOS. > > Therefore, if programmers do not test on Windows, it is because they do > not want to. > This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows. What's the probability that your household has a Windows computer if you're a programmer that don't live with your parents? What if that programmer is an open source contributor. Surely not 90%.
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