SPUG: Results of Unix vs. Windows Survey

[Dwaine Felch]

Perl is a very strong scripting language, the best I can find. I am
primarily a Windows user and sometimes Linux and Mac. I am open to all
Platforms and chose what I think is best for the job. For desktops,
Workstations, home, business and the average user; Windows is the first
choice. I presently don't own a Mac, but they are my second choice.
Linux
Is making progress, but is still very poor at setting up hardware and is
More buggy than Windows or Mac. No comment on high end servers because I
Have little experience with them.
Once you have labeled yourself as "such and such user of this or that"
you
Have usually closed your mind off to what others are developing and will
not
See the good in it and reap the benefits; therefore blinded by the ego.
My 2 cents,
Dwaine


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org] On Behalf
Of Asim Jalis
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:26 PM
To: spug-list at pm.org
Subject: SPUG: Results of Unix vs Windows Survey

Here are the results:

49 TOTAL RESPONSES   = 100.0%
40 UNIX              =  81.6%
15 WINDOWS           =  30.6%
30 UNIX ONLY         =  61.2%
9  WINDOWS ONLY      =  18.4%
6  UNIX AND WINDOWS  =  12.2%
4  UNIX AND MAC      =   8.2%

About 30% of the people use Windows either
100% or around 50% of the time at work for
Perl development. About 80% use Unix at 
least 50% of the time or more. About 18%
use Perl in a pure Windows environment 
with no use of Unix which is interesting.

Incidentally most of the Windows responses
came in yesterday morning. The Unix responses
came in later in the day and then also today.
I didn't quantify the pattern, but it is 
possible that Windows users check their 
e-mail more regularly or at least respond
more quickly than Unix users.


Asim

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