On 2/26/2009 5:04 PM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:00:32AM -0500, Jonathan Guyer wrote:
e.g., while I can get work done with Windows, I can get a lot more work done with something else because I don't have to devote so much energy to profanity.
Fantastic!! I love this sentence.
On Linux, every call to malloc must be matched with a call to free. On Windows, millions of calls to HeapAlloc can be matched with a single call to HeapDestroy. Windows prevents impossible-to-find memory leaks, and preserves my sanity when working with complex data structures. I really like Windows. There is even software and hardware drivers for it. Linux may be free as in freedom, but as Kris Kristofferson noted some 30 years ago: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free." Sturla Molden