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From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just a minor new twist on free()
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.115141.10177@hayes.ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 90 11:51:41 GMT
References: <335@bii.UUCP> <119@nazgul.UUCP> <1990Oct26.154315.26612@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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In article <1990Oct26.154315.26612@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <119@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>><... ( Mess - DOS doesn't count as a system (:-) ).
>>
>>If other systems are so superior, why aren't their programming environments
>>up to the standards of the MS-DOS world?
>
>Because they don't have 10^10 mindless lemmings buying them and thus
>underwriting development costs.

Not to mention that "up to the standards of" seems to apply to mindless
programmers and their idea of "standards".  My perception of comparing
UNIX to MS-DOS as a programming environ is that one has a lot of frills
and no meat to it.  The latest "thing" for MS-DOS doesn't hold a candle
to what UNIX was 5 years ago, much less today, when it comes to getting
some work done.



-- 
Floyd L. Davidson   floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu    floydd@chinet.chi.il.us
Salcha, AK 99714    connected by paycheck to Alascom, Inc.
When *I* speak for them, one of us will be *out* of business in a hurry.