Re: Thought I'd throw this in ;-) for the sake of conversation.

[Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net>]

Nick Roberts wrote:
> Chris Humphries wrote:
> 
>> I'd rather use something that enables me to have the power to shoot
>> my foot off, then slowly bleed and deny any bullet holes existed before
>> you recieved it, until enough people see the holes.
> 
> 
> Funnily enough, I have only just downloaded the full and unabridged 
> Cygwin onto my Win XP machine. I actually /physically/ felt a sense of 
> relief and reduced tension as I did this, knowing that I now have a real 
> development environment available, rather than Windows, which just isn't.
> 
> It's hard to explain, to the outside world, how important the deep sense 
> of personal empowerment (hehe) is that comes from a having proper 
> development environment, to a hardwired programmer. However, I have got 
> that sense much stronger from environments such as Smalltalk and even 
> the likes of Python and Ruby than I ever have from Unix (and its shells).
> 

Guess, out of boredom, you will not be taking a look at OO korn shell?
hehe. Good points :)

-Chris