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Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-long-long-way dept.

giampy writes "Joel Spolsky writes a review-like article on the last book of Eric S. Raymond (The Art of Unix Programming). His views on the cultural differences among Windows and Unix programmers are well explained. Overall, an interesting read." Also on the topic of Windows, badriram writes "Microsoft is reorganizing the windows team, it seems the are separating the OS core development. Seems like things heading in the right direction in creating a more secure OS, and making it more business oriented. Read the article here."

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  1. Re:bad reflexes by erlenic · · Score: 5, Funny
    How could it be that I was reading this book for over a year now?

    Don't worry, plenty of slow readers have gone on to lead successful lives.

  2. Re:to sum it up... by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Windows programming is like playing golf
    Exactly. There are always at least 18 holes.
    --
    "BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
  3. Re:That's too bad by dillon_rinker · · Score: 5, Funny

    He will be sorely missed.

    Sourcely missed! SOURCELY! He was an advocate of open SOURCE, you idiot, not open...oh. Nevermind.