Re: Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice..

If that was the case then why post Anon?

Sorry don't buy it. Usually the people who prefer Unix probably started on it. Same as the PC types and the Mac types.

My last job was a unix primary shop and I had a Solaris box on my desk.

This job is a PC primary shop and I have two PCs on my desk

I really don't have a preference as they are just tools too me. I can do both sides well and I can say that both OS' can actaully do certain things better than the other.

But that is just my .02

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Re: Re: Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by rattusillegitimus (Friar) on Jun 05, 2002 at 14:25 UTC
Marza wrote: Usually the people who prefer Unix probably started on it. Same as the PC types and the Mac types. I have to disagree here, at least for myself. Perhaps I'm the exception that proves the rule, but I'm one who started in the DOS/Windows world but immediately prefered Unix once I got a taste of it. I spent several years as a religious zealot once I got Linux installed stopped using Windows entirely. More recently (and slightly more on-topic), I've come to the realization that more than one of you have mentioned, that the OS is just a tool, and different tools are better for different tasks. This is especially true now that I am severely limited in the development software I have at work (currently Win95). I keep both a Win2K box and a Linux box at home so I can try to keep up with the technology I need to do my job (the Windows side) and the technology I enjoy more (the Unix side). My preferred tools overall, if I were making the decisions, would be Linux as the OS, with vi and emacs sharing editing duties (I do swing both ways there), MySQL for databases, Perl for coding, Apache for serving web, Lynx and Opera for browsing it, etc. But because I have to live in the real world, I try to be equally proficient in similar tools on the Windows side. ;) As soon as I can hack a few more hours in the day, I'll have to try out Cygwin and the various GNU utilities for Windows... -rattus, $.02 from the rat's nest of a brain	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by MadraghRua (Vicar) on Jun 05, 2002 at 16:47 UTC
Sorry, I'll have to disagree on the Unix statement. I started on PCs/DOS back in the early eighties (Commodores and Sinclair zx 80s) moved to Vax, moved back to PCs and DOS, found Macs and finally came back to Unix. My own preferences are Unix for development - Solaris, Debian, Suse and Red Hat in that order. I just find earlier Mac OSs and Windows cludgey, probably due to my own lack of skills on these OSs. My home systems - Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 2000 on various old lap tops. I keep three sets of drives for Solaris, Suse and Red Hat, popping them in and out as I need to. At work, its mainly Solaris, Tru Unix 64, SGI, various Linuxes and Windows 2000/Max OS X. I like to use Hummingbird as the windows emulator for Unix, MacX for Macintosh. Tools - I use the various Unix tool ports to Windows mentioned earlier. I do find Visual Studio useful for cobbling together C/C++ projects or trying to port code to Windows. MadraghRua yet another biologist hacking perl....	[reply]


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