On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
>
> > 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?
No, typically a lot of their tools (like the control-panel stuff) were
written in Python + Tkinter. Their new installer is written in Python I'm
told.
> If I were considering some great new program written in Python, I'd be
> annoyed at having to install Python first, maybe even enough so that I
> would just do without. Maybe I'm in the minority, but if not, perhaps
> the "universality" of whatever this is written in should be considered.
> (You can't go wrong with good old C :)
Sure you can. See my other post for why. Dig through. Hint: Brooks.
Another hint: compatibility. Look at all the #ifdefs in various platform
code for almost any C package across Unixes. Look at Python code that runs
on all Unixes. Compare.
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