I strongly dislike Python 3

[geremy condra]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:25 PM, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote:
> geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2010-06-27, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan at case.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It should be easier to have a large number of python versions on one
>>>>> machine... ?I am realy fond of 2.5 so I am probily going to start
>>>>> compiling them or just include the python2.5 exe if I port stuff and
>>>>> settle it that way..
>>>>
>>>> You're on the only platform where it isn't that easy. All us *nix
>>>> users have to do is compile it with the altinstall flag, and then use
>>>> #!/usr/bin/env python25
>>>> Windows uses the file extension instead of the shebang line to execute
>>>> stuff, so it's harder for you to have multiple versions.
>>>
>>> If you install a real shell on Windows, then the hash-bang line works
>>> fine. :)
>>
>> Might as well spare yourself the trouble and install linux or *bsd. It's
>> probably easier.
>
> Ah, yeah, and then run all those Windows applications one requires on
> Wine...

If you're bound to a platform, use it. My advice is just to get bound to
a platform that does what you need it to do, and in my experience it's
quite a bit easier to teach linux to do what you wanted windows to do
than the other way around.

Geremy Condra