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UGH. APPLE PROGRAMING VERSUS WINDOWS
Kjammer:
Unix always felt like home to me.
crazybritishsteve:
Unix always feels like i'm breaking into someone else's home. I shouldn't be there, and if i get caught i'll be in trouble.
MilkmanDan:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias (in the previous thread) ---Windows programming is pretty much essential in the computing field. I'm only in my third year of CS and I've already had two classes that required the use of Windows APIs.
The first day of class in one of those courses someone asked "What if we have a Mac?" The professor just laughed.
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Well it sounds to me like your professor is an ass, but whatever.
I'm wondering if that's a University specific thing though. I'm planning to go to the University of Edinburgh, and IIRC all their computers run Linux. So it seems unlikely that they would require Windows API's. I'll mainly be using Java and POP11, which I'm pretty sure are both platform independant. Well, Java is obviously, but I think POP11 is too.
Other than that, I'll be using PHP and Ruby which both run fine. And I have Xcode for the win.
Anyone else who's done a CS degree have any input?
crazybritishsteve:
Went to lancaster, it was all unix. Java was the main language we used. everything else we used was not platform specific.
Addius:
--- Quote from: Matteh99 ---I am not much of a programer but I know if i want to write a little program I can used xcode on my iMac, for windows I have to farts around getting an bootleg copy of visual studio or get some other 3rd party or open source thing. Bascially a pain in the ass.
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hehe, in absolutely no way should one believe that Visual Studio is one of the mainly used programming tools for programming windows applications. I haven't met any "real" programmer that hasn't agreed to it being too bloated and therefore left it unused. I'm sure there's developers out there that uses it but I've yet to meet them.
The only reason I can see why one would want to create windows-specifik programs are if you want to hit a broad commercial homeuser-mass.
One might also want to concider Apples move to the X86 architecture, or whatever perversion they'll have Intel make of it.
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