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A Linux workstation is a programming utopia so far beyond what I imagined when I was a teen. I loved BASIC on the C64 too, but later on, I was looking at spen
by code_duck 16y ago
A Linux workstation is a programming utopia so far beyond what I imagined when I was a teen.
I loved BASIC on the C64 too, but later on, I was looking at spending $350 to buy a C compiler for my Amiga back in 1991. I learned what I could of AmigaShell, ARexx, and AmigaVision, but it was a bit limited. These days, you can be writing C, C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Flash/ActionScript and so on for free.
In Linux or MacOS, most of these are preinstalled. As far as I know, Windows comes with no programming tools installed, other than a browser, and that is indeed a major oversight.