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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.122448.7746@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <C0EG4y.74G@jti.com> <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:24:48 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
- >In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >>
- >>I was musing a number of hours after the above about where I go from
- >>here with my newly-installed Linux system. If I throw out my
- >>mailing-list, address-book, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs
- >>previously used on the system, and manage to decide that I never want
- >>to use them again, I still have the following question:
- >>
- >> Now what?
- >
- >Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
- >of the word processing :-)
-
- Hmm so I was right 'bout TeX.
-
- >
- >The programming environment is far superior to anything MS-DOS has to
- >offer, and with f2c I've got a fairly reasonable FORTRAN compiler for
- >work; when g77 comes out, I'll hurry and install it. Gnuplot takes
- >care of the graphics side of things.
-
- Is there a Modula-2 compiler out there for Linux? I know there is
- a pascal one on my system, I think. Is there?
-
- >
-
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- | It is with failing, that one learns,
- | So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
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