XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   Tom Shelton pulled this Usenet face plant:   
      
   > chrisv explained on 12/23/2010 :   
   >> Tom Shelton wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It is not difficult or costly to setup a good software build   
   >>> environment in windows.   
   >>   
   >> But not as easy as it is in Linux, which often comes with development   
   >> tools by default!  From a geek's perspective, very cool.   
   >   
   > The fact that it might be slightly easier to setup a build environment   
   > on linux does not make the original proposition:   
   >   
   >    
   > Windows is a much more problematic environment for building software   
   > than Linux.   
   >    
   >   
   > Any less bogus.  Windows is not "much more problematic"...  The hardest   
   > part of the process is knowing what tools you need and where to get   
   > them.  And, I think most people who might be interested in this sort of   
   > thing are not going to have too much trouble finding the answer.  Nor   
   > does it take a "substantial amount of money or a substantial amount of   
   > effort" - about the only part of that claim that is true is that it   
   > does take some knowledge.  Whether it takes a substantial amount of   
   > knowledge is debatable.   
      
   One thing I don't like about Windows dev tools is how they inexorably push   
   you towards Windows-only applications and towards the way of doing things   
   the way Microsoft wants them done.   
      
   And the jargon!  The Microsoft jargon!  Delegates, boxing/unboxing, sealing,   
   indexers, and so much more, hijacking well-known concepts from C++ and   
   replacing them with different terms, mostly just to be *different*, it seems.   
      
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   of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand, so that you can   
   proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or swayed, directly to the goal.   
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