On Thursday 01 January 1970 12:00, Heimo Claasen wrote: > Hmm, yeah - precisely: > > Well surely this is the same for any other programming language in Linux? > > (By the way, that annoying paternalistic approach is found on Windoze > > networks too.... > > The more I get used to (which doesn't say befriended with) that Linux > box the more I tend to appreciate the principle of the (real) Java > approach to keep all that net intrusion in the sandbox. And the more I > love this ol' DOS box which is to me, me! ME!!! alone, and not to a > SysAdmin who I'm not.
Well, I used to use DOS/Win 3.1, and it's very simple (far simpler than Win95, for example). But Internet use just got to be too much of a hassle with DOS's 8.3 filenames.... So I went shopping for an operating system, I wasn't going to *pay* for Win95 :) I considered OS/2 but that looked like it was dying so that left Linux. I think I made the right choice. > Thanks for the "Quackbasic", btw. (Used to call it QuirkB. hitherto.) Be my guest. I was developing a large program, well, 100KB, that handled a 1.5MB database, and QB's memory limitations got really really annoying. It was a steep learning curve converting everything to Xbasic, but it's just so darn good never to have to even think about the possibility of 'out of memory' errors any more.... cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
