Re: Script to convert "" to _T("")

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Yes. The fundamental incoherence that resulted meant that I once worked for an
organization that delivered a Unix product on 30 different platforms, and the amount of
conditional compilation was mind-boggling! Some code was there to compensate for bugs in
the C compilers, some of which would not accept standard C syntax, some of which produced
erroneous code under some conditions.

X Windows was wonderful; I could crash the X server consistently and reproducibly by
sending it valid drawing commands, and no one could ever figure out why. It was actually
less reliable that 16-bit Windows 3.1, because it crashed far more often (I ended up doing
all my development on a 33MHz 386, under Windows 3.1, because it compiled faster, and I
knew the compiler worked, the linker worked, and I had a debugger that was actually more
reliable than the platform I was running on. Under X windows, the free gdb, besides being
a throwback to debuggers I had used in the early 1970s, simply crashed without warning,
sort of like VS2003 or VS2005.
joe

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:40:22 -0500, "BobF" <rNfOrSePeAzMe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IMHO, *nix could have dominated the computing world IIF, there had been a
single, strong source of direction/vision for it's evolution.

Instead, *nix ended up fractured beyond belief. If only the *nix world
would have standardized on OLIT for GUI!!! But Nooooo, we had to have 31
flavors of every part of the system from the kernel out ...

My favorite environment was known as OSX. It was a dual universe Unix
implementation that included BSD4.3 and SVR3.2. If only that had been SVR4
...

Oh well ... Windoze it is ... <sigh>

Anyway, I'm sure perl is a great tool. By the time perl became wide spread,
I was so proficient with awk (nawk) that it didn't make sense to change
tools for the kind of data manipulation I was doing.

I honestly don't use those tools much any more. I do keep them handy though
for the occasional one-off stuff that pops up from time to time.

Oh, BTW, I absolutely despise emacs. What a turd of a tool *that* is <g>


"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns99A4E1BD9A59CMihaiN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I really do love sed and awk.

awk! Now, that's some old memory!

I give up awk for perl about 9 years ago
(although I still use it once in a while for environments
where I don't want a full Perl installation)

But for tasks without install I am starting to use KiXtart more and more.
(http://www.kixtart.org/). Nice toy :-)


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