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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:06 PM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:
>> Seriously, bmake can be compiled on Cygwin and Interix.
>> So, it is definitely available on Windows.
>
> True, it's amazing how close you (as a developer) can get Windows to
> look like Unix.

In the middle 90th I was a Windows user, so, I can feel the pain.
But I believe that UNIX tools ported to Windows (cygwin and interix)
gives Windows developers A LOT of power. So, it makes sense for them
to learn UNIX tools once and use them for years. IMHO mingw is not relevant.