[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

[DJ-Pfulio]

Did MSFT finally fix "libraries" and make them part of the file system,
not just some GUI lib?  Drives me nuts when things behave differently
from powershell/cmd.exe than in a GUI.

On 08/06/2015 09:36 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> They did. But they should have made the posix subsystem permanent and tied it in to win32 as am optionally usable API. Eh. History. 
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>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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>> Didn't MS steal the leading VMS systems guy from DEC and have him design NT, if memory serves me correctly?
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>>> On 08/06/2015 03:15 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>>> And don't get me started on serial ports! Why Microsoft took inspiration from VMS and not POSIX is beyond me.
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