Adding on to what Harsh said, I would like to point out that most universities across the world are beginning to adopt UNIX as the standard platform for teaching programming.
UNIX ? But that's closed source isn't it (at least the commercial versions.) Was it s/UNIX/Linux that you meant to say ?
--amar
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