Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth mkx at excite.com:
| In many Perl vs. "other scripting language" discussions, I have often
| seen Perlers state that those who dislike Perl's syntax and structure
| are often non-Unix types, and thus are not used to common Unix
| concepts. And, since Perl was born as a Unix admin tool, us "Windows
| types" will likely be lost.

Could be.  I'll go along with everyone else so far, UNIX competence
is no guarantee you'll get along with Perl, but it does have a lot
of sed, awk and shell heritage.

Python doesn't, but there are places where platform neutrality isn't
really feasible, and there it seems to me UNIX often prevails.  The
main thing I notice is the documentation, e.g., invoking the python
interpreter in the tutorial, but I really only use it on UNIX and
similar (BeOS), you may notice more functional issues.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu