RepRap: followup.

I received some comments on my previous blog post; one of them I guess was from one of the people who helps develop reprap, and who pointed out that the Java software is not the only thing; there are apparently alternatives in python, and a C-based one in development. Goodie.

Another managed to put out this gibberish:

I'd just like to point out that C and POSIX isn't very easily portable to the majority of computer systems that users use (ie. Windows), not to mention that C doesn't have a whole lot of abstractions away from the OS (eg. building up path names is not easily portable in C).

My friend, that is why they have these things called 'libraries' and 'cygwin', or even 'MingW'. There are many programs who were written in C and who are portable across Windows and POSIX; Apache, OpenSC, to name but a few. I'll grant you that it is more work to develop applications that are cross-platform using C, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. At least, however, they'll be easier to install.