On 2006-08-02 21:09:43, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Microsoft could provide an emulated environment for backward > compatability, just like Apple did. Wouldn't know what that would cost, > though.
Possibly. Rather than waiting for that, I think that languages that want a degree of portability should simply provide a wrapper around this low level system dependent stuff. There's no need to use system dependent path separation characters in the language API. >> And don't be fooled... you may run a Linux system, but you'd pay >> your share of that bill anyway. > > How's that? Pretty much every production cost increase gets in the end paid by the consumer. With some localized changes, you may be lucky and don't buy any products that are affected, but with such a widespread change as this would be, it is more likely that almost everybody is affected close to average. With that is also mostly the pressure gone to not increase -- because so many are affected that the few who are not happily increase the prices with the others. The only ones likely to make a cut for a short time are a number of Windows consultants. But those probably would be mostly either people with some previous involvement with the product or the company, or cheap offshore resources. Probably neither is your case... :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
