On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM, J. Andrew Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Replying to myself, > > I'll let Mark have the last word since, after all, it is *his* project and > not mine. :-)
I assume that last sentence was sarcastic ;-) Of course, while Mark is a valued participant in OpenCog, it's not *his* personal project ... and the initial OpenCog system is C++, mainly tested in a Unix environment ... FWIW, my impression about the ubiquity of Unix servers in Silicon Valley agrees w/yours. This is obviously because Silicon Valley is currently obsessed with Web apps, and Unix is generally recognized as a better platform for the large-scale deployment of Web apps. And no, I don't feel like spending my whole evening looking up copious statistics to support this assertion. However, I'll quote just one simple stat: " About 90% of the Internet relies on Unix operating systems running Apache, the world's most widely used Web server. " from http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/a/unix_win.htm I spent 10 minutes looking for data regarding developer productivity on Linux vs. Windows, but mostly just found bullshit about M$ vs. IBM, concerning fatally flawed, mock-scientific studies funded by Microsoft ;-p http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/46828.htm (note that this study, while conducted by M$ in an extremely dishonest way, is also really about IBM WebSphere rather than about Linux C++ programming, so it's not directly pertinent to this discussion anyway. Except to highlight the difficulties of doing this sort of comparison in a meaningful way.) OK ... enough of that ... back to doing useful work ;-) -- Ben ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
