Look guys, I've been bashing code since both bash and C were a gleam in their developers eyes. I sympathize with Will's position but given that 90% of our customers are living in a Windows environment we have to produce applications that run on their systems - I'd love to do *nix versions of our applications and in fact, I have a very neat app that would work well in that type of environment - BUT - there's no demand for it. Sure, it would be a nice teaching tool for biomech folk but realistically less than 30% of the people that we deal with are comfortable writing anything outside a VB macro.
Play Nice! Regards Edmund Cramp -- "I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act" - Louise Brooks > -----Original Message----- > From: general-bounces at brlug.net > [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of willhill > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:21 AM > To: general at brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] C++, C# programmer almost needed > > On Saturday 17 November 2007 10:31 am, B. Estrade wrote: > > I do disagree with telling someone else how to run their business, > > unless you're a consultant being paid to do that very thing :). > > Quit telling me how to express my opinion. > > > > > You seem to wish for everyone to be aware of every choice they have > > all the time. You're also assuming that someone else's > definition of > > "best" is the same as yours. > > Quit putting words into my mouth. > > >There is little benefit to forcing global knowledge on the system, > >the overhead is simply too great and requires constraints. > > Knowledge is something that people make available all the > time. Others organize it and the result is good for > everyone. There is no force here other than you telling me > to shut up. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
