On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:29:10AM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > * The worst part is Graphics. Either, one should use the Win32 stuff > that is in ROOT, or one should use X11. Fons seem to prefer the > later in case of Cygwin. The X11 story could be looking brighter > now that it seems X11 has been ported to Cygwin. My best bet would be convince ROOT that it is being built on a really wierd Linux system. It might take some effort to fool autoconfig and automake, though. > Debuggers - hmp! Who needs them? - No, just joking, though I think > someone in the Collab once said something like (qouted from memory): > > Finally, I've tried the M$VC debugger, and I was not impressed. > Essentially it's too clumbersome for my taste. Well, a debugger is like a software oscilloscope (the thing with 4 BNC inputs, a tiny screen and 100 little twirly knobs). It is just that "if()" statements are more reliable than LeCroy discriminators so you can get away without using a real debugger tool, most of the time (and there are no LeCroy "printf()" NIM modules). While the MSVC debugger has a very steep learning curve, so do the new fancy scopes, and so do most powerful tools. (But note that rotten software (i.e. everything Windows) requires using these fancy debuggers-on-steroids). > > As for VMS - what is that? Something from the stoneages ... > > ... The kid looks even more puzzled, and finally > ask her father "Dad, does that mean that companies made software, > and made money off it? ..." Right on the money- DEC made no money on software, so VMS, DEC, c|o|m|p|a|q are (and HPaq soon will be) history. > Seriously Kris, VMS has been outdated for a great many years, look to > the future. VMS was good at what it did, on the hardware back then. Hmm... if Linux were so great, people would not keep adding VMS features to it all the time. Ahem, one day we may even have *real* linux clusters! > My only regret about all that, is that Digital didn't managed to > promote their superiour chip technology to the desktop (or personal > computer, or even PC) market. So now we stuck with these sh**ty i386 > chips! Agreed- DEC kill off the Alpha CPU technology is the biggest calamity of recent memory, in the computing world. -- Konstantin Olchanski Email: olchansk@triumf.ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
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