DMD v2.066.0-rc1
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 7 04:30:18 PDT 2014
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 16:19:39 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> I don't think it's difficult for them, I think they often just
> don't know they can. Environment variables just aren't as well
> known on Windows these days. If you are an 18 year old getting
> into programming you likely have never even heard of
> environment variables or batch files and may not even know how
> to use the command prompt (or open it for that matter). Windows
> Vista came out when they were 10 years old and the days of
> having to know and use the command prompt for typical users
> were long gone by this point. I'm thirty so I knew and used
> MS-DOS as a kid (I had to) but if you've never used these
> things how would you know you could?
There are OS courses at institutes, where you have linux, gcc and
learn, how pipes, shared memory and synchronization mechanisms
work.
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