From lex@cc.gatech.edu Mon Sep 11 14:18:52 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4987 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2000 21:16:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Sep 2000 21:16:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO burdell.cc.gatech.edu) (130.207.3.207) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Sep 2000 21:16:49 -0000 Received: from cleon.cc.gatech.edu (root@cleon.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.9.12]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA28931 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aSqueakSystem (IDENT:lex@r52h135.res.gatech.edu [128.61.52.135]) by cleon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA20629 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:16:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009112116.RAA20629@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: Celeste 2.0.2447 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:17:5 -400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc. To: lojban@egroups.com From: "Lex Spoon" pycyn@aol.com 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