The "loop and a half"

[Paul Moore]

On 8 October 2017 at 11:36, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> Frustrating for whom?

Well, me as well as Steve, if we're counting votes for who finds your
attitude frustrating...

> It seems to me that it's pretty much everyone here who has an overbearing
> sense of superiority in that everything that Unix or Linux does is a million
> times better than anything else.

As a Windows user, I would like to make it clear that your views don't
in any way represent me.

> Even with things like building applications (eg. trying to build CPython
> from sources), they are designed from the ground up to be inextricably
> linked to Linux scripts, utilities, makefiles, installation schemes, or
> designed to work with the Linux-centric gcc C compiler. Then when they don't
> work as well anywhere else, it's because Linux is so much better! No, it's
> because they were non-portably designed around Linux and therefore designed
> NOT to work well anywhere else.

When developing scripts, applications, or any form of code, I use good
ideas from anywhere, as I doubt that I have the monopoly on knowing
the perfect way to write code. Some of those good ideas come from
Unix-based systems. That's not "because Linux is so much better", it's
because someone other than me had a good idea, and I acknowledge the
fact.

Paul