New/old programming language making a splash

Tim Writer tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 20 18:07:05 UTC 2005


"Stewart C. Russell" <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> David Mayerlen wrote:
> >  And I cringe when I see "Cygwin". Yah it works but geez, if yah want that
> 
> > sort of thing there's a better way :-)
> 
> Not if your work depends on Windows-only applications. I don't see anyone
> rushing to write Linux versions of my daily staples WindFarm
> (<http://resoft.co.uk/> -- windfarm CAD system) and Didger
> (<http://www.goldensoftware.com/> -- powerful mapping package). Both of these
> do benefit from having Cygwin on the same box for munging text output files.

Win4Lin perhaps.  I couldn't find system requirements for resoft but Didger
runs under '98 so should run well under Win4Lin.

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