Mike,
I didn't mean to imply that implementers of UNIX tools on Windows have done a
poor job. If fact they work better than I thought they would. But it is so
nice to find that almost all the tools I need come pre-installed with Linux,
run faster, and are easier to update. And yes, I really appreciate that S-Plus
runs under Linux as well as Windows. -Frank
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:11:26 -0500
Michael Prager <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov> wrote:
> At 07:39 AM 02/23/2002 -0500, Frank Harrell wrote:
>
> >... when I ditched Windows 2000 and went to the real thing (Linux) I found
> >out what I had been missing trying to get things working in Windows
> >(especially easy of installation of Emacs, LaTeX, etc., speed, true
> >operating system with symbolic links, etc.). -Frank Harrell
>
> I feel rather ungracious nitpicking the generous Frank Harrell, and I am no
> Windows apologist, but to me what the above suggests is mainly that those
> who have developed tools under *ix have done a poor job of porting them to
> Windows. If *ix is taken as the "true" operating system, all others will
> forever fail to meet the standard. It is perhaps less romantic to hold
> that each system has its faults and merits and that an operating system's
> worth cannot be judged by how well it runs software designed for another
> system and ported in someone's spare time.
>
> I prefer operating systems that don't require of the user a working
> knowledge of octal.
>
> By the way, none of my DOS batch files run worth a d**n on Linux --
> especially the ones that try to access the command line before the shell
> has transformed it.
>
> Anyway, aren't we lucky that S language implementations are available for a
> choice of environments?
>
> MHP
>
> (None of the above is to be construed as NOAA opinion or endorsement.)
>
>
> --
> Michael Prager, Ph.D. <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
> NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
> Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
> http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/
> ***
>
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Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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