Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 13:17:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199712010247.NAA00456@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:02:25 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130180110.25047C-100000@kai.communique.net>
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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. It's right there on the CD, along with dozens of other pet languages. > Though Python'd probably be more useful than FORTRAN :-) Given the responses I've received to my occasionaly luser queries about Fortran, I would be inclined to say that there is probably still more Fortran code doing more Real Work on FreeBSD than Python code. > One of the few things I like about Red Hat Linux is that it has python > preinstalled! This is merely because their moderately sucky(*) package management system uses it. mike (*) This is in contrast to our extremely sucky package management system. 8)
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