On 03/07/2013 13:50, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2013-07-03 09:51, Tim Golden wrote: >> We can certainly agree on this. I can't count the number of emails >> I've deleted as too hot-headed in response to dismissive comments >> about Windows as a platform. Some of them, at least, appear to be >> from people who last actually used Windows back in the 9x days when >> the command window was very limited indeed. > > I guess one of my biggest frustrations with the cmd.exe (and > command.com) interpreters is that argument processing is left to the > application, so each application may do it slightly differently:
Goodness, I doubt if you'll find anyone who can seriously make a case that the Windows command prompt is all it might be. I'm not a Powershell user myself but people speak highly of it. Or, as you say, you can use the GNU tools either natively or via cygwin. Not my cup of tea, but that's the way of tools: one man's meat... More to the point, I've got no problem with informed criticism (although there's little point in grumbling just for the sake of it). The problem I have is with criticisms which are years out of date, or which appear to be fuelled by prejudice more than by experience. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
