On 2013-12-11, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> I detest python, also, but there's no way w/out it. > >> I like python - the language was designed by a mathematician and it >> shows. Contrast with perl which was designed by a linguist, and that >> shows too. >> >> As you say you can't run Gentoo with portage without Python, that's >> one of the things you know for sure up front. > > What does it matter whether you like the language or not when you are > only using software written in it? It only matters is you develop > that software. I cannot get on with Perl, but I am not at all > bothered about using software written in it. > > If you really have some philosophical or allergenic objection to even > having Python installed, you could always use a different package > manager.
If he want's to avoid using programs written in Python, he'll probably have to give up Linux completely. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Oh, I get it!! at "The BEACH goes on", huh, gmail.com SONNY??