Re: gcc vs anything else - correction (fwd)

[ntrolson]

Tom Zerucha wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> 
> >   i admire Mac for being well ahead of its time. geeze.. Mr.
> >   Gates thought it was worth while to copy the interface.
> >
> >   but personally, i never feel it was a real programmers
> >   environment. click, click, click.. jobs done.. unix on the
> >   otherhand - the real hackers environment.. you dont understand,
> >   your harddrive dies..
> 
> UNIX was a protected environment - crashing it unintentionally (if you
> weren't root and didn't hit /dev/mem) was actually difficult.  The (early)
> Macs would give sad macs and bombs and other things.
> 
> Both UNIX and Mac are consistent within their paradigms, Windows isn't.

I have found Windows to be very consistent; I expect the worst and have
yet to be disappointed.  Personally, I would rather have Codewarrior
retain a consistent interface across all its platforms than try to
emulate some lame windows interface just to please a few vocal hacks. 
The easiest solution for them is to buy what it is they want: VC++. 

Cheers,

Norm