Python compared to other language

[Steve Holden]

walterbyrd wrote:
> On May 18, 2:17 pm, Larry Bates <larry.ba... at websafe.com> wrote:
> 
>> Python is Portable - C is probably the only more portable language
> 
> Small quibble: IMO, although C runs on many platforms, I don't think C
> code is typically portable between platorms. Unless you are doing
> something very simple. If you write something with Visual Studio to do
> something fairly advanced on Windows, I don't think the same,
> unmodified, code will usually run on UNIX, or MS-DOS. Maybe if you use
> pure ANSI C, but I don't think many people do that.
> 
Surely the fact that Python is available on so many platforms implies 
that C is a fairly portable language. I realise that you have to take 
platform specifics into account much more than you do in Python, but I 
do feel you are being somewhat unfair to C.

> I'm just learning Python. FWIW: my opinions about Python:
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regards
  Steve
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