Shay <Sha### [at] cccc> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> >
> > IDEs and need for different editors is a thing of a utility-poor
> > environment like Windows, where any significant tools are only
> > provided by commercial vendors...
>
> Is that really the case? I thought all of the more significant freeware
> projects (Emacs, Vim, Firefox, Latex, Eclipse, etc.) worked on Windows
> as well.

sorry, I meant what comes out of the box, like Notepad, DOS console, javascript
interpreter inside IE etc... it's a poor environment and commercial providers
thrived by their all-in-one solutions.  Specially in the past, without internet
connection.

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