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Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by rbanffy on Thursday November 26, 2009 @01:39PM (#962951)
I call it a feature.

Cygwin is the first thing I install on a Windows desktop. At least it makes it look like a civilized environment.

Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by mahmud on Thursday November 26, 2009 @07:37PM (#963285)
Mingw makes Windows civilized AND non-slow.
Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by rbanffy on Friday November 27, 2009 @01:51AM (#963545)
MinGW is a compiler set. Cygwin gives me a full Unix-like environment on top of Windows. It's not an apples to apples comparison.
Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by mikeytown2 on Friday November 27, 2009 @04:02AM (#963636)
Look into CoLinux, I like it a lot more then Cygwin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux
Re:A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp by cema on Friday November 27, 2009 @03:51AM (#963624)
That's MSYS in MinGW world.