jamesd@com.informix.com says:
And another vast advantage of DOS Windows is that it is a vastly better environment for developing software than unix.
The great strength is of course symbolic debugging -- you can single step your compiled code, and see it displayed symbolicly, with the symbols and statements of your source code, whilst unix programmers are usually reduced to picking through core dumps like grave robbers.
Strange -- I've had symbolic debuggers and execution environments on Unix since I started using it in the early 1980s. I guess I've just been hallucinating. Or perhaps James is.
You can run your program under the debugger and set it so that when an exception condition occurs, bingo you are in the debugger at the line where the exception occurred, and all the variables as they were when the exception occurred, and the rest of windows, the graphical user interface, has been frozen until you examine the situation to your satisfaction.
Try that in Unix.
I've been doing it all morning, but then again, I'm just on drugs.
You might be able to do a crude and limited equivalent with a text mode program, but with a GUI program you are hosed.
Actually, I've been doing it on a large GUI application.
This is the basic reason why unix software sucks -- because the tools for writing it suck.
Fascinating.
And windows has the *.rc file system for internationalization.
I guess that the Posix internationalization system is another hallucination of mine. James, you are an ignoramous. Perry