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Windows has been developer friendly to anyone that embraces Xerox PARC vision what computers are supposed to look like.

Being a developer is not a synonym for UNIX-like experience.



I'm confused and intrigued by this comment. I complete agree that Unix is not at all axiomatic, but also think that Windows is a pain to develop for. clarify?


Windows is only a pain to develop for when approaching it with UNIX expectations.

Developing on Windows is similar to Xerox PARC workflows, made mainstream by MacOS, Atari, Amiga, Oberon, and naturally Windows.

For any developer using Java, .NET, Delphi, C++ (VC++ / C++ Builder), Windows is pretty good developer workstation.




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