From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8189ed626c26fad0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Chris Humphries Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thought I'd throw this in ;-) for the sake of conversation. Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:25:34 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <415814CE.1060501@unixfu.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2rig76F1b49udU1@uni-berlin.de> <41542296.8050006@unixfu.net> <2rjc7rF1as5g0U1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <2rjc7rF1as5g0U1@uni-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4259 Date: 2004-09-27T09:25:34-04:00 List-Id: 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