>> Even so, the whole Unix mentallity seems a lot more set-up for this 
>> kind of thing. On Windows, there isn't even a standard place for 
>> header files to live...
> 
> That's because Windows doesn't assume you'll only have one compiler. :-)
> 
> It's really quite a recent thing (approximately since Red Hat) that UNIX 
> software came as executable binaries.

Then again, how many machine architectures does Unix target?

How many machine architectures does Windows target?

I rest my case.

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