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

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 12:12:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto 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.  :)
>
>
> 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

I think we can probably agree that linux has become something 
quite great, despite that not being the initial reason for 
adoption.

Even if you don't like the basic architecture that much, the 
community and frameworks built on top of it have been spectacular.