Hi Nikhil, Your possible reply would be ....
:O yaa your program would only compile n run on Windoze.... while my program just needs a lil tweak n can work on whole lot of Architecture...gcc ....is the compiler which makes wonders... intel, sparc, mac, name it n it will run on it .....
so your program is inferior compared to mine ;) ...
any ways .... i hope u know wat i mean to say ... do something n show them ... so they themselves will realise the power of linux....
Best Regards, -Mitul Limbani Support Editor (mitull@wrox.com) (http://www.wrox.com) (http://p2p.wrox.com)
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 08:01, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Hi! I had a conversation with my B.E. comp friend about Linux. Basically he is doing a project in VC++
fr:So you are doing project in Linux right ? me:yeah. C programming in Linux fr:Oh,does Linux have VB,VC ? me:No fr:hmm... so will my VC programs run on Linux? me:No fr:Then what's the use of Linux?
I was stupified. (OK Windows programs can b emulated but still they cannot 'run' right ?)
This is from a guy who had Operating Systems,System Programming,Microprocessor in his syllabus
I guess the whole syllabus is 'DOS' oriented. ppl still cannot digest the fact that there are many other compilers other than the 'standard' Turbo C++ 3.0
Also I've observed that this is the general awareness/attitude of Comp. ppl abt Linux.
I can only imagine what it must be like for Arts/Commerce/ ppl to understand what is Linux
-- Nikhil