Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc.

From: "Lex Spoon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:17:5 -400

[email-masked] wrote:
> << Microsoft makes it hard for people to develop applications that
> run well both on Windows and non-Windows. >>
> Whereas Linux, say, makes it easy to develop something that runs on that 
> system as well as Windows and Macs? Hooohah! 

Actually, yes, with the exception that Macs (I hear) have very stringent
coding guidelines. If you just make an effort to be portable, it's not a huge
amount of extra effort. If nothing else, you can use wine to
make a windows-like program that will run on both Linux and Windows. 

It's just that not many programmers bother.

-Lex