Re: Future for VC++ Programmers

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Joseph M. Newcomer ha scritto:

I don't want a system that can't back up files if there are any users logged on.

I don't want a system where the way applications do useful things is to spawn shell
scripts. And these scripts only work if the correct version of the shell is installed on
the machine, and the search paths haven't screwed up, and the utilities that the shell
script uses aren't broken, or at least aren't broken relative to the standard versions on
my machine, for whatever standard version we're talking about this week.

[...]

I shouldn't have written the word "linux" on a microsoft newsgroup...

Just joking. BTW, all what you write is a matter of personal
preference; Windows' list could be much longer, if only someone finds
the time to write it.

In my opinion, Linux has more chances to improve in the way users and
developers want, as it's not bound to some company economic interests.

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