OT: If I were to list what I've done with filePro & vent how I feel about filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 01:08:45PM -0400, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
>thus spoke:
>> is correct.). More young IT people are very familiar with Windows and
>> its issues. The biggie here is Management. Often they demand Windows
>> environment as most of their applications are Windows based.
>
>MCSE certifications are a dime a dozen, and worth about as much.  Same goes
>for Linux certifications, but fewer Linux people are likely to get suckered
>into it, largely because they're smarter in the first place.  Largely, an
>MCSE means that they're just one notch above being able to ask, "Would you
>like fries with that?"

MCSE, Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

>> Is Linux better?  It is probably more robust and needs less
>> horsepower. However, there is more hardware out there today designed for
>> a Windows environment. Mac OS is running behind that and lastly is the
>> Linux environment.
>
>Erm...last I looked, Linux has more hardware support than FreeBSD, and OS/X
>is based on FreeBSD.

I'm leaning towards running most things under VMware VMs as it
largely removes hardware issues, and is dead easy to move VMs to
new systems if necessary.  All my SCO OpenServer systems are
running under VMs.

>If something is standards or class compliant, it'll probably work on any of
>them.  If you have some oddball, your chances are better with Linux than
>FreeBSD or anything based upon it.
>
>> The scripting language is far better then the MS batch language. The
>
>Perl for Windows exists.  Python for Windows exists.  There's zero reason
>to suffer -any- of the MS-specific rubbish any longer.

I wouldn't do anything on DOS/Windows until I had perl and the
elvis 'vi' editor available.  Back in the DOS days where memory
was very limited, I often generated .bat files with perl, then
quit perl to run the batch file.

Today, about the only thing I do with Windows is run it under
VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro to do double dummy analysis of
bridge hands generated in Python on my MacBook Pro and run the
dealing machine to prepare duplicate boards for club games.

Bill
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