<p>Why not? Either way, I am chiming in as a programmer of many years. Unless using osx I stick with windows to avoid half-day forays into nettling technical issues that are not related to the work I am paid to perform. I would love for Haskell to work better there.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2012 5:21 PM, "Johan Tibell" <<a href="mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com">johan.tibell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trebla@vex.net" target="_blank">trebla@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:<br>
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No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing on Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to Windows by Haskell developers... The implication is that Haskell developers (only/mainly) use *nix.<br>
I commented that if true this lack of Windows testing could limit the availability of Haskell to the largest market share of users.<br>
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Clearly, since >90% of computers have Windows, it should be trivial to find one to test on, if a programmer wants to. Surely every programmer is surrounded by Windows-using family and friends? (Perhaps to the programmer's dismay, too, because the perpetual "I've got a virus again, can you help?" is so annoying?) We are not talking about BeOS.<br>
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Therefore, if programmers do not test on Windows, it is because they do not want to.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows. What's the probability that your household has a Windows computer if you're a programmer that don't live with your parents? What if that programmer is an open source contributor. Surely not 90%.</div>
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