Python too complex ?!?!?!

[Chris Mellon]

On Nov 19, 2007 8:52 AM,  <kyosohma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 7:46 am, Brian <not_here at no_where.com> wrote:
> > Had a unsettling conversation with a CS instructor that
> > teaches at local high schools and the community
> > college. This person is a long-term Linux/C/Python
> > programmer, but he claims that the install, config, and
> > library models for C# have proved to be less
> > problematic than Python. So both his courses (intro,
> > data structs, algorithms) are taught in C#.
> >
> > I am a low-end (3-year) journeyman Pythonista, and I
> > was attracted to the language because of its
> > simplicity. And I have come to enjoy the richness of
> > available libraries.
> >
> > Many of the good people of this NG may be 'too close'
> > to answer, but has Python, as a general devel platform,
> > lost its simplicity ? Is library install too complex
> > and unreliable ? Will my dog go to heaven ?
>
> If this professor was only using Windows for his environment, then I
> might be able to understand his argument better. There are many more
> external modules for Python that don't have Windows installers than
> there are with binaries. And I've had more than my fair share of
> broken setup.py files.
>
> On the other hand, if all that is needed are the standard libraries,
> than it's a breeze to install Python since they're all included.
>
> Mike
>

These modules exist, but aren't that common. Certainly anything you're
likely to be using in an introductory compsci course is well packaged.
And even if it's not, it's really not that hard to create packages or
installers - a days work of course prep would take care of the
potential problem.