On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:43:30AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> aCC: warning 901: unknown option: `-0': use +help for online > >> documentation. > > > >I don't remember the last time I wrote anything that worked on HP-UX; > >it's certainly not a platform I have any interest in supporting. I > >mean, geez, next you'll be complaining that it doesn't work on VMS. > > > >If you're going to deal with freakish systems like this, then yes, > >you're going to have to go to the lowest-common-denominator. But > >that's no reason why those of us not stuck in the 1980s should care. > > > >For any feature you care to consider, ABSOLUTELY ANY FEATURE YOU HAVE > >EVER USED, there exists a platform on which it does not work. That > >does not mean you should not write any code. > > While I agree that from certain programming standpoints HP-UX leaves > much to be desired it also happens to be one of the current dominant > OSs of choice for big-iron Unix systems, and is therefore not an > obscure "freakish" system.
All the HP-UX sysadmins I've encountered disagree with you on both points (although 'dominant OSs of choice for <arbitrary undefined group>' can mean just about anything). They generally only use it because either (a) they can't afford a hardware upgrade, or (b) they have some weird proprietary application that won't run on anything else. > My software works fine under HP-UX. You software should work under > HP-UX as well. What for? Nobody wants to use it there. It's a far better use of time to do things people actually want. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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