[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-07 11:28, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <lu1f9l$5ii$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>
>>> The VMS way is much better.  When VMS lost ground due to bad marketing
>>> etc, many things were developed on unix with an "I don't care about
>>> other operating systems" attitude.  Some of these became de-facto
>>> standards (gzip etc) so VMS people had to adapt if they wanted to use
>>> them.
>>
>> Whoa! Don't throw stones in glass houses...
>> How many VMS programs can you say were developed with a mind of making
>> it easy to compile and run them under other operating systems?
>
> One of the most popular open-source packages, LaTeX.  :-)

I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember that LaTeX is a macro 
package for TeX, and if so, then it can hardly be called a VMS program.

But I'd be happy to be corrected.

	Johnny

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