From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 15:57:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA15134 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from kai.communique.net (Kai.communique.net [204.27.67.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15121 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@NECTAR.COM) Received: (from smap@localhost) by kai.communique.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA25111; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:02:32 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: kai.communique.net: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.communique.net(127.0.0.1) by kai.communique.net via smap (V2.0) id xma025108; Sun, 30 Nov 97 18:02:25 -0600 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:02:25 -0600 (CST) From: Jacques Vidrine X-Sender: nectar@kai.communique.net To: Joerg Wunsch cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19971130230136.00664@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wish Python would be included as well ... but then I guess that everyone wishes that their fav language was included. Though Python'd probably be more useful than FORTRAN :-) One of the few things I like about Red Hat Linux is that it has python preinstalled! Jacques Vidrine On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > In terms of compilers (ie C/C++) or interpreter(perl, shells) what > > can be considered to be always or at least usually be included in > > FreeBSD? As part of a minimal install is Perl included? > > Perl is included, although by now still Perl 4 (*). sh and csh are > there, tcl is there starting with FreeBSD 3.0 (which is, of course, > not yet available :). C and C++ are there, of course. f77 is > there. ;-) > > (*) Don't rely on this version, and better write your scripts so they > can work under both, Perl 4 and 5. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >