On Sat, June 9, 2007 10:11 am, Darren New wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
>> Are you trying to be proficient in both? I have enough problems bouncing
>> between Linux (vi) and M$ (garbage).
>
> So... Install VIM on Windows? :-)
>

I have. And perl and Tcl/Tk and grep and a few other tools for grown ups.
Alas, at least at our shop, these are buggy ghosts of their real self.
There is always a way to make them work, but there are features within
them that do not work. Curiously, Tcl on M$ is the best of breed. But I'm
the only one using it.

[It always amuses me when a M$ zealot contends "we're a M$ shop and we
don't use open source!" If you took perl and Python away from us,
Development, SCM, and V&V would be paralized. I'm sooooo glad M$ invented
those languages!]

>> I think certain personality types are more comfortable with M$ percisely
>> because they have the luxury of not having to make choices.
>
> That's kind of strange, since I know virtually nothing except X window
> managers that hasn't been ported to Windows. :-)
>

That's for those of us who use windoze at gunpoint. I'm talking about the
subset who wonder why we would do that. I have example people in mind, and
if you like, I can ship them to you (please don't feel obliged to return
them).

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer

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