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

[Paulo Pinto]

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.  :)


Linux took off because it provided a way to port UNIX software at 
cost zero.

The companies where I developed in commercial UNIX platforms they 
only used Linux as a way to avoid paying UNIX licenses, not 
because Linux was something great.

The enterprise world only cares about money.

--
Paulo