[aplusdev] Article on A+ and Linux

[Stefano Lanzavecchia]

> By the way (please be gentle with me, as I'm not a MS person), aren't 
> there implementations of X available for MS Windows (tm)? Is the 
> problem that there are none that are both good and free?

I am not the original poster but I think I can reply to this one: yes,
basically the problem is that none are both good and free. Except
possibly the cygwin implementation. Alas, I tried a while ago to port A+
to Cygwin and failed. The non-GUI stuff works almost completely (I
failed to port the trap to floating point errors, the stuff in s.c if I
remember correctly). The GUI doesn't. But I believe it could be made to
work. 
The main issue is that it would still feel like a very foreign
application to any Windows' user, since it would run inside a separate
window, with its own desktop, with different widgets that behave
differently from the similar ones under Windows... Your average Windows'
user wouldn't even know where to click to close a window, to start
with...

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