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From: shell AT shellware DOT com (Shell M. Shrader)
To: <bf250 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [SETUP BIG BUG] et.seq.
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:40:23 -0400
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If you're new to programming, or don't consider yourself a programmer,
perhaps its best you look towards a more simplified environment.

Sun has a very comprehensive Java compiler and SDK.
Borland is constantly making improvements to their development environment.
Perl is very easy to write and maintain on a wide variety of systems.
Microsoft has Visual Studio, IIS, MTS, SQL Server, etc.

You'll find most of the people supporting this list are die-hard developers.
They're typically graduate students or professionals who take systems and
programming very seriously.

Shell

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sankey" <bf250 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SETUP BIG BUG] et.seq.


> I'm a musician, not a programmer, and all I'm trying to do is to give
> people a free world-class edition of Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord
> music with LilyPond under the GNU GPL.
>
> When it takes me most of a week of screwing around to try to get
> Cygwin to work, which it has, then I find that the bug that caused
> all it was noted on this group before I started, I do indeed feel
> like I'm in a war zone. (Not to mention that the reason I'm stuck
> with getting Cygwin to work is because RedHat Linux, which I
> *bought*, refuses to run in one disk partition even though that's
> perfectly legal Unix/Posix and I'm using a 5 MB non-GUI program on a
> machine with 64 MB memory.)
>
> I've now got 8 posts (many in two copies), all but one of which went
> off like a landmine to shoot the messenger. (One of the 7 apologised
> after he read the prior posts and realised how bad the problem was.)
> BTW, I DID download all the files that were at the mirror I used.
>
> If RedHat doesn't start putting users first, they are going to end up
> like DEC. GNU deserves better.
>
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