Re: Operating Systems

["Pascal Obry" <pascal.obry@der.edfgdf.fr>]

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 Robert Dewar a �crit dans l'article
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>If you want to fiddle around with user interfaces, e.g. the sort of
>thing that is probably best done in Visual Basic in any case, then
>NT is certainly attractive.

Or you can use Tk/Tcl available under NT and UNIX.

>
>if you are planning on developing large scale complex programs, then
>Linux seems a much better bet. For example, the command line support
>that comes with NT is truly pathetic, it is basically just DOS (OS/2
>by contrast has FAR better support in this respect).

There is also the GNU-Win32 environment with bash that is a better shell
that command.com for NT or the shell under OS/2. The GNU-Win32
environment is a UNIX like environment for NT. In fact I developpe on
UNIX and NT and I have the same (in all point EMACS, GNAT, gcc, bash,
 gawk, sed, cut, wc, ps....) environment on both plateform.

>
>So take a look at Linux -- there is a full featured Ada 95 compiler
>available for this environment, which is also free software (GNAT)
>

Also keep in mind that NT is really easier to install/configure.

Pascal.
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