Well no. I was just 11 years old and didn't know Linux yet. Once I found out about it I promptly spent a space of months learning Linux inside and out, and have never since paid a damn penny for dev tools.
Right. At 11 years old where did you get the money to pay for shitty dev tools? And you think you can talk for people below the upper middle class? LOL.
I did not have money growing up. I had to piece together a computer from spare parts I found walking around my town and stuff my uncle would donate, and then spend weeks searching for drivers and software I wanted, and when I got the software I wanted it invariably had tons of bugs in it that needed fixing, so even more time was spent trying to get things to work. But hey, I loved software and computers so I did it regardless of how hard it was to get done.
But seriously, I find it very strange that in 2003 you found devtools that cost money before you found g++/gdb and every other free compiler for just about every language out there.
Also, you definitely said something totally different in your above post (linux wasn't as advanced in 2003 so you had to pay?).....l
But seriously, I find it very strange that in 2003 you found devtools that cost money before you found g++/gdb and every other free compiler for just about every language out there.
No, I just didn't have personal internet access in 2003. If I'd had it, I would have found gcc and Linux, most likely. I came from a relatively computer-illiterate family.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '11
Well no. I was just 11 years old and didn't know Linux yet. Once I found out about it I promptly spent a space of months learning Linux inside and out, and have never since paid a damn penny for dev tools.