On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:10 PM, <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Windows-only is hardly the norm. There's at least as much software >> that's Mac-only or Linux-only as Windows-only. > > As much Mac-only software as Windows-only? Possibly, but I doubt > it although I acknowledge things are moving in that direction. > As much Linux-only software as Windows-only? You must be smoking > crack. :-)
Or just using Linux. Stuff that runs only on Linux is actually a bit of a problem at times - coders making assumptions about the environment that aren't guaranteed, and merely happen to be correct on all current versions of the Linux kernel. >> And far far more that's >> cross-platform or at least multi-platform. The most important thing is >> interoperability - sometimes that means stuff like Samba (specifically >> written to talk to a "foreign" system), but more often it means coding >> to the pre-written standards. I can write all sorts of TELNET servers >> and clients, and I can be confident that they'll work nicely with >> other people's clients and servers, and that they'll understand each >> other when they say IAC DO NAWS or IAC SB TERMTYPE IS "Gypsum" IAC SE. >> If one of them is buggy, it must be fixed, or it must not be used. > > TELNET? Does any one still use that except perhaps on secure, > controlled legacy intranets? We nuked that and other protocols > of it's era (FTP etc) for ssh and other (more) secure protocols > ages ago. TELNET protocol is the fundamental basis of MUDs. Doesn't mean there's a TELNET server at the other end. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
