Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Mon Jun 12 15:24:52 EDT 2000


On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:45:01PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> >Is it's base structure less related to any one specific operating
> >system?

> Perl isn't so much related to an OS, as it is to some other
> utilities (awk,sed,grep) and languages (bourne shell).

Yeah, right, and a chair isn't geared as much to a human as to a one-to-two
meter tall, bi-legged creature with two arms, a flat back and bends in all
the right places ;)

I guess it depends on your definition of OS, and of UNIX ;)

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