From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T06:22:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Mixed Bag

On 9/6/05, mathew <meta@pobox.com> wrote:
> (Austin hates Cygwin with a passion, so obviously it slipped his mind to
> mention that.)

Let me clarify something here:

I don't hate Cygwin.

I can't stand it when people pretend that it's an acceptable
environment on which to base Windows solutions. Whether this is a
"replacement command-line shell" (it isn't; I tried using cygwin's
shell for a good long time) or a platform to base a program on, it
isn't. Cygwin is a crippled POSIX environment that grants you clean
and unified access to neither all the POSIX goodness nor the Win32
goodness that's out there (and, now that I've *finally* done real
Win32 development, there's quite a bit of that out there; there's
several things that are, IMO, done much better than in POSIXland).

Again, to be clear -- it's not Cygwin that I hate. I *use* Cygwin.
It's people who pretend that it's a good fit to Windows. It isn't, and
it likely will never be.

-austin
-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca