It compiles quite nicely on OpenVMS too, which is nice, since most of
the tools their are pretty foreign when you first start using it (to
say the least).
Maybe it has something to do with Python's "There should be one—and
preferably only one—obvious way to do it" attitude?
On 12/23/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I be impressed that python, unlike so many gnu tools, compiles
> with 8c and actually works? IT seems I should.
It's not a GNU tool. Like many non-GNU tools, it's just written
in portable ANSI C.
One nice thing about Microsoft Windows is that lots of people
use it without gcc, so code that has been ported to Windows
typically is clean enough and structured well enough to make
a Plan 9 port easy.
Russ
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian
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to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy --
and without consciousness.
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