On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This isn't, by the way, to say that "emacs sucks!". It's more "emacs >> setup sucks!" with perhaps a dash of "ported software sucks!" > > Well, it's certainly a truism that *nix-based software is harder to > setup on Windows than on Mac/Linux.
In other words, "ported software setup sucks!"? :) > I think that's because most folks who develop open source software > systems tend to use *nix-based machines (Mac/Linux) so it ends up > being the job of Windows users to help test, debug, document and > provide patches for the software so that the Windows experience > becomes more bearable... Rather ironic, when the tendency, at least historically, has been for Windows (and Mac) to have superior usability when it comes to native (rather than ported) software. Of course, Unix suffers somewhat from competing standards (try finding any two Unix text editors first written before 1995 or so that have the same keybindings!) and being more variable than either Windows or Mac (XP vs. Vista vs. Windows 7 is nothing compared to Debian Linux vs. Ubuntu Linux vs. Slackware, Knoppix, etc., etc., etc., vs. OpenBSD, vs. AT&T Unix, vs. ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
