Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Tue Jun 13 09:37:54 EDT 2000


mkx at excite.com wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2000 06:11:44 GMT, dana_booth <dana at oz.net> wrote:

>>mec: So my question is this: Is Python a more "Windows-friendly" language?
>>
>>Okay, I couldn't leave this alone. :)
>>
>>I think "Windows-friendly" is relative. I know Windows only programmers who
>>can out-Perl just about anyone. (FWIW, I'm in the UNIX crowd. :)

> I should have replaced "Windows-friendly" with "less painful to
> non-Unix users"...

Um, Perl can be painful to Unix users too. I am a Unix user and I never
really got into Perl; didn't have to as I discovered Python and didn't
look back.

Regards,

Martijn
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