From: Charles Plager <cplager+news@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T04:41:27+09:00
Subject: Re: windows shell

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 9/5/05, Charles Plager <cplager+news@physics.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Austin Ziegler wrote:
>>
>>>The "real world" comment is garbage. When 90% of the world runs on
>>>Windows, there's no call for that sort of bigotry, unless you're just
>>>being an ass.
>>
>>As far as programming goes, most people don't spend that much time in
>>Windows.  I'm sorry if that upsets you.
> 
> 
> Too bad your comment doesn't jive with reality. (There are *more*
> Windows developers than Unix developers.)

My guess is that most of the people on this list programming Ruby are 
NOT on Windows.

> I don't know why I'm arguing with someone who clearly doesn't know
> what they're talking about in any case, and confuses shells and
> terminals as you did. 

Huh?  I did?  O.k., whatever dude.

> Talk to me again when you've got a clue about
> the relative power of each. (The only thing that I regularly miss at
> cmd.exe is command completion instead of just file/directory
> completion. But I get over that easily.)

Of course, with bash/tcsh/zsh/etc, you can have it all.  I'm glad you 
don't mind settling.