[Tutor] Text Editors and Linux (was Re: exit message)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:52:05PM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> >  I've never heard of a scripting language that's not available on Windows.
> 
> It depends what you mean by available. I expect Unix systems to come
> with bash, perl, python, and many more out of the box. Each of these
> things can be installed on Windows, just as you can install Windows
> versions of grep, awk, sed, vi ... The difference is that Unix just
> always has these things without needing to do something as ridiculous
> as cygwin.

Not only that, but Cygwin often introduces little quirks or outright 
bugs that make it a not-quite first-class development environment.


-- 
Steven