Just a minor new twist on free()

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Wed Nov 7 20:28:41 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct26.154315.26612 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <119 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>>If other systems are so superior, why aren't their programming environments
>>up to the standards of the MS-DOS world?
>Because they don't have 10^10 mindless lemmings buying them and thus
>underwriting development costs.

Also, the best UNIX software development environments are fully as nice
as the best MS-DOS ones, plus the other numerous benefits of using UNIX.

The worst UNIX software development environments are pretty ordinary,
but at least one has the other UNIX advantages to compensate for that.



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