Clean is loosing portability in favour of Windows :(

Alan Hutchinson alanh@dcs.kcl.ac.uk
Tue, 30 May 2000 11:49:32 +0100 (BST)


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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Alan Hutchinson <alanh@dcs.kcl.ac.uk>
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> > >  I have been
> > > waiting for improvements for the Linux platform for some time
> > 
> > my feelings exactly.  I write code on both platforms occasionally,
> > but my sympathies are all with the Linux open concept.
> > I feel happier working with an OS which I understand, where
> > everything is comprehensible, at least in principle.
> 
> I agree, but I can see that Clean team has a point too. Linux people
> do not seem to worry about portability, or about making their system
> user-friendly (at least, this is what a recent issue of Scientific American
> says about Linux).

Don't bother about Scientific American.
A year or so ago, they carried an article about hacking and trapping 
hackers which was rank unmitigated propaganda for Microsoft.  
They are not impartial.

Regards
Alan Hutchinson