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Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
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On Monday, 23 September 2013 09:55:27 UTC+2, Bill Findlay  wrote:
>
> > ...  There will never be
> 
> > a good desktop experience on UNIX/Linux (not that it bothers me personally)
> 
> OS X gives me a pretty good desktop experience.
> 
The best one currently known.
> 
> Well it "hasn't" ( really?) been working for 40+ years and I don't see that
> changimg anytime soon.  Strawmen (geddit?) are not a substitute for well
> founded argument.
> 
Quite. 
> 
> Was that *whole* post tongue-in-cheek?
> 
Unlikely.