Why not? Either way, I am chiming in as a programmer of many years. Unless using osx I stick with windows to avoid half-day forays into nettling technical issues that are not related to the work I am paid to perform. I would love for Haskell to work better there. On Nov 20, 2012 5:21 PM, "Johan Tibell" <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai <tre...@vex.net> wrote: > >> On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote: >> >>> No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing >>> on Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to >>> Windows by Haskell developers... The implication is that Haskell developers >>> (only/mainly) use *nix. >>> I commented that if true this lack of Windows testing could limit the >>> availability of Haskell to the largest market share of users. >>> >> >> Clearly, since >90% of computers have Windows, it should be trivial to >> find one to test on, if a programmer wants to. Surely every programmer is >> surrounded by Windows-using family and friends? (Perhaps to the >> programmer's dismay, too, because the perpetual "I've got a virus again, >> can you help?" is so annoying?) We are not talking about BeOS. >> >> Therefore, if programmers do not test on Windows, it is because they do >> not want to. >> > > This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't > imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows. What's > the probability that your household has a Windows computer if you're a > programmer that don't live with your parents? What if that programmer is an > open source contributor. Surely not 90%. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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