[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
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> > No, but almost all Linux installations (particularly Red Hat's) have
> > Python installed already.
>
> I've seen quite a few Linux boxen and have several at home, but I've never seen
> Python installed on any of them. Maybe that's one of those "if you install
> the entire (redhat?) distribution" things?
>
SNIP SNIP
> Another thought... I've never done any porting of software, but I would
> imagine that it'd be easier to design software to work on multiple
> platforms from the beginning rather than porting it later. Why limit
> this to Linux? If you could enlist #BSD/Solaris/whatever other
> programmers from the onset, you might end up with a finished product
> that's useful to a much broader audience. Maybe my outlook is different
> from others on this list, but I don't care which OS you throw in front of
> me as long as it's *nix. ;)
>
I agree. If it is supposed to do web and non-web, I would prefer to do
JAVA myself. I like the fact that I can compile it on almost any platform
natively, or JIT it, or interprete bytecode. I like the fact that the same code
can be used without modification to be both browser and non-browser, and at the
same time, the code is pretty OS independent.
Although I am still ruminating about whether I can commit to a project on
the scale of project management software, I don't know that I would myself
choose PYTHON for such a project...
Maureen Lecuona
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