Brian wrote: > Had a unsettling conversation with a CS instructor that > teaches at local high schools and the community > college. This person is a long-term Linux/C/Python > programmer, but he claims that the install, config, and > library models for C# have proved to be less > problematic than Python. So both his courses (intro, > data structs, algorithms) are taught in C#. > > I am a low-end (3-year) journeyman Pythonista, and I > was attracted to the language because of its > simplicity. And I have come to enjoy the richness of > available libraries. > > Many of the good people of this NG may be 'too close' > to answer, but has Python, as a general devel platform, > lost its simplicity ? Is library install too complex > and unreliable ? Will my dog go to heaven ?
I'm a complete noob about most of this, but it sounds like his problem may have more to do with what needs to be done on a Linux machine, than anything specifically pertaining to Python. How can you call installing Python (or any third-party modules) on Windows 'hard'? Maybe his students just have a harder type figuring out how to install things in Linux? I don't know... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
