endians

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Nov 28 19:25:29 PST 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:35:59PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Hence, I stand by at least one of my assertions from circa 1993:  A *nix
> system with no devkit is pretty much useless to me.  I fail to see the
> point in such a scenario.  It's like having a car with no drivetrain--it's
> pretty until you actually want to -do- something.

Except be a firewall.

Lack of compilers is pretty much a feature, there.

Cheers,
-- jr 'Interpreters, too' a
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