Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3243
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Oh, Sun has plenty of tools for programmers. If you have a Sun box or running Solaris on x86 you can download for free their SunStudio11 development IDE with C-C++-Fortran95. It used to cost $3k last year. The fact that Linux is eating Suns lunch seems to have put a lot of pressure on Sun. Solaris also comes with all the libraries for CDE, X, Motif, etc. There is tcl-tk, python, perl, slang, etc.
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:26:25 -0700, When you offer actual evidence, rather than handwaving, it might be. But all you do, is reiterate the same claims...
Then you have Linux... it has everything included for any level of programmer. The base is from Gnu foundation, where C-C++-Fortran is included with all Linux distros. All the languages that you could ever want is included with Linux. The only one that isn't that I'm aware of is Cobol.
I look forward to your link to the post where I said this particular task was easier in...
OpenVMS is a different animal, but all o-ses have programming languages buttociated with them. Otherwise, how would any vendor be able to write software for their platform?
The ease of use in XCode is a myth and is actually harder to use than Visual Studio 6.0. XCode isn't intuitive, but it does take into account large projects by including CVS (code versioning system). OS X primary focus is on Objective-C.
-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3244
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