<div dir="ltr">Thx, I knew there were more of us out there. I started with the floppy era when Linux came on a single disk and then two disks and downhill from there :-)<div><br></div><div style>I do a lot of C, Perl, Python, Java, C# (the last 2 because I'm paid to :-( ). I am continually surprised as to how well OS X works under the covers (as in from Terminal) Most of my life is on the command line and it's getting where the difference between the linux and os x world is pretty transparent.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Good luck in your decision and if you get a mac spend some time in the guts and see how you like it. There are a few nits (I don't have a current lynx app anymore) but all it's not a bad work environment.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Norm Matloff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In reply to the question of what I want to use this for:<br>
<br>
I'm a longtime Linux user, almost from the beginning. As to distros, I<br>
mostly have used Ubuntu in recent years.<br>
<br>
I do lots of LaTeX work, and a fair amount of programming (R, Python, C,<br>
C++, OpenMP).<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Norm<br>
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