From: Edmund Wong (wonge@fraser.sfu.ca)
Date: 01/07/93


From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what?  (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:24:48 GMT

In article <1igrp7INNdp8@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>In article <C0FvMp.A2y@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
>>
>>I was musing a number of hours after the above about where I go from
>>here with my newly-installed Linux system. If I throw out my
>>mailing-list, address-book, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs
>>previously used on the system, and manage to decide that I never want
>>to use them again, I still have the following question:
>>
>> Now what?
>
>Well, I've got TeX and vi, with xdvi for previewing, so that takes care
>of the word processing :-)

  Hmm so I was right 'bout TeX.

>
>The programming environment is far superior to anything MS-DOS has to
>offer, and with f2c I've got a fairly reasonable FORTRAN compiler for
>work; when g77 comes out, I'll hurry and install it. Gnuplot takes
>care of the graphics side of things.

  Is there a Modula-2 compiler out there for Linux? I know there is
a pascal one on my system, I think. Is there?

>

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