dmd command line options bad design: -offilename, -Ddocdir etc.

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 10:39:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 09:54:30 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 11 April 2013 17:57, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 11.04.2013 17:20, schrieb John Colvin:
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 15:15:09 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/11/13, Jonas Drewsen <nospam4321 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> By "I think that would be the way to go" I did not 
>>>>>> necessary
>>>>>> refer to having both formats supported at the same time but
>>>>>> simply to use the standard way that people know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Unix != universal standard.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Next best thing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually I would like to know how the desktop world would 
>>> look like
>>> had Apple bought BeOS instead.
>>>
>>> This would mean no UNIX on the desktop, assuming Apple would 
>>> have
>>> won a similar market as of today.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paulo
>>>
>>
>> Linux would have still taken off... and UNIX would still be 
>> relevant on the
>> server market.  :)
>
> Not to mention supercomputers. There's a reason why they use(d) 
> UNIX and linux and it's not because of apple.

Sure but I was speaking about the home market, not the server 
market.

Then people would need to bash both Apple and Microsoft for not 
being UNIX like.

Although I like UNIX architecture, it is not the be all end all 
of operating system architecture.

I was lucky enough to play with various OS so far.

--
Paulo