platform neutrality (was: The REALLY bad thing...)

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> writes:

> In article <000501bfbee7$62318ac0$a2a0143f at tim>, "Tim says...
> >
> ...
> >As to the remarks about whether it was worth the time to port Python to
> >Windows, note that Windows is Python's most heavily used platform now -- I
> >personally doubt Python would have survived if it only had its Mac and Unix
> >base since '91.
> 
> Here's yet another thing I like about Python: it's most vocal
> advocates don't regret the fact that it runs on Windows.  In fact,
> some of 'em even develop stuff for Windows!  (Get outta here! / _No,
> really_!)

Windows is a large customer base.  I intend to pay enough attention to
portability so that any large application I write in python will at
least start up on Win32 ... hopefully be a pleasant user experience
there too.

Thanks to Tim Peters and Mark Hammond for keeping that port alive and
well ... I certainly hope that one day all my users will be on Linux
and I will have millions of them :-) but until that day, they make it
so I don't have to worry about it.

> Of all the major open-source packages I've seen, Python seems to be
> the most platform-neutral.  Well done!

Despite my blatant platform preference, I am VERY glad that python
deals with Win32.  It allows me to reach a wider audience without
worrying about the specifics of the underlying platform, and I am
immensely greatful for that!  (Not only that, but it allows me to
detect and cope with those places that it can't gloss over, manually!)

> (those-open-source-packages-which-live-in-the-most-environments
>    -will-win-software's-'survival-of-the-fittest'-game;-open
>    -source-authors-who-recognize-that-are-wiser-than-unix
>    -fetishists-who-don't<wink>)-ly y'rs,

python-deals-with-Windows-so-I-don't-have-to-ly y'rs,

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