On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:35 -0700, Donn Cave wrote:
Exactly. If you don't use MacOS, let alone develop on it, I guess it's possible that this looks like an formidable obstacle, but then wouldn't that pose some limits to how much you're going to be able to enjoy GHC anyway?
Well, I explained my motivation... my students in this class are 12 to 13 years old, and those who have Macs have very little knowledge of how to install XCode on them. I don't use a Mac, and don't have the install disks... I'm honestly not sure if they do or not. (I certainly don't keep install disks around for *any* other software I use, so it's hard for me to imagine people happening to still have the disks that came with their computers; don't they normally get tossed out with the cardboard boxes? Maybe Mac users are different...) This is a huge issue for me. I suppose if no one has their OS disk and it comes to that, I'll pay a bunch of 5 dollar fees out of pocket to buy those students XCode 4 (hopefully at least *that* is downloadable), but it won't be a pleasant choice to fork over a good chunk of money to Apple for the use of free software that they didn't develop. -- Chris