Re: gEDA-user: geda cygwin package

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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...

> Even the CS guys are not programming experts.  The EE's 
> should be able to work with unix, with the command line.  
> They should be able to write programs to solve engineering 
> problems.  They should be able to administrate their own 
> systems and write scripts to solve their own problems.  They 
> should be able to install a program from source, and do some 
> simple porting.

I generally agree with your treatise, but here, we part ways just a bit.  Why would you specify the OS that I have to be able to work with (Unix)?  I can and routinely do do everything else in your paragraph above, all of it self-taught, but I do it on Windows, either at its command line, or by programming or scripting it.  Why should it have to be *nix?

Dave




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