Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:02:25 -0600 (CST) From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130180110.25047C-100000@kai.communique.net> In-Reply-To: <19971130230136.00664@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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 <n@nectar.com> 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. ;-) >
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