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This is a BSD system built on top of a MACH microkernel.
– mouviciel
Commented Oct 1, 2009 at 14:00
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Telemachus - Yeah but in all fairness, most users won't ever use it and it's readily available in the XCode tools that is on the install disc that ships with all Apple computers.
– MDMarra
Commented Oct 1, 2009 at 15:38
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To be fair, if the stuff is on the disk, it is available "out of the box", depending on what box you're referring to.
– Phoshi
Commented Oct 1, 2009 at 17:05
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@Telemachus: Most people who use a Mac don't want XCode, so installing it would be a waste of disk space. If you have any clue that you want a compiler, you can easily install one. If you need everything pre-installed for you, and you can't handle a simple installation step, you'll never make it in software, and shouldn't be trusted with a compiler.
– David Thornley
Commented Oct 1, 2009 at 17:30
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@Telemachus: The compiler is there. It's right in the box. I don't understand why you think all Unix-like OSes should work the way you want when you first turn on the power. There's a long and honorable tradition of fiddling things to make a Unix box work the way you want.
– David Thornley
Commented Oct 1, 2009 at 19:48

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