On 8 October 2017 at 11:36, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > Frustrating for whom?
Well, me as well as Steve, if we're counting votes for who finds your attitude frustrating... > It seems to me that it's pretty much everyone here who has an overbearing > sense of superiority in that everything that Unix or Linux does is a million > times better than anything else. As a Windows user, I would like to make it clear that your views don't in any way represent me. > Even with things like building applications (eg. trying to build CPython > from sources), they are designed from the ground up to be inextricably > linked to Linux scripts, utilities, makefiles, installation schemes, or > designed to work with the Linux-centric gcc C compiler. Then when they don't > work as well anywhere else, it's because Linux is so much better! No, it's > because they were non-portably designed around Linux and therefore designed > NOT to work well anywhere else. When developing scripts, applications, or any form of code, I use good ideas from anywhere, as I doubt that I have the monopoly on knowing the perfect way to write code. Some of those good ideas come from Unix-based systems. That's not "because Linux is so much better", it's because someone other than me had a good idea, and I acknowledge the fact. Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
