From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 31 9: 3: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51FC37B42C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA17572; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:03:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAAxaOhI; Thu Aug 31 09:03:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02396; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:02:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008311602.JAA02396@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! To: jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), res03db2@gte.net (The Clark Family), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000830205243.A23746@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "j mckitrick" at Aug 30, 2000 08:52:43 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:32:20PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > | > 3. Why doesn't M$ use such a tool to improve code quality? They of all > | > people have the funds. > | > | The tools won't run on Windows platforms; they require big iron. > | The smallest systems you'll find them on are UNIX engineering > | workstations with a lot of RAM and a lot of disk. > > I mean why not use these tools during the development process, on > non-windows machines, of course? Most programmers do not have the discipline to program for several platforms simultaneously, or there would be no need for crocks like GNU configure. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message