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On 10/04/2013 00:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:09:19 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 09/04/2013 22:09, Walter Hurry wrote:
>>> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:51:26 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> Having never really used a *nix box in anger how would I know?  A
>>>> substantial portion of my career was spent on a combination of VMS, C
>>>> with embedded SQL and Ingres.  Please don't ask as I don't know the
>>>> answer :)
>>>
>>> Anti-virus, anti-malware, defragmenters, registry cleaners, needing to
>>> reboot every time I install or update software?
>>>
>>> No grep, no awk, no sed?
>>>
>>> No thanks.
>>>
>>> But never mind; each to his own. I don't want to spark OS wars.
>>>
>>>
>> I haven't the faintest idea what your response means so please explainn.
>
>
> Walter is pointing out that as a Windows user, you probably have to deal
> with problems that Unix users are barely even aware of, like viruses, the
> registry, having to reboot after installing software, etc., and you are
> missing out on oodles of useful and powerful tools like grep. He finds
> your decision to use Windows curious, but respects your decision to use
> it and doesn't want to get into an unproductive war over which is the
> best OS.
>

How did VMS get translated into Windows? :)

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