From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10612241628k7ce06e69ua6295e2159871a90@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:28:06 -0500 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] python In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10612231554q18d04583s62440faf93c21013@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9bb4ec2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It compiles quite nicely on OpenVMS too, which is nice, since most of the tools their are pretty foreign when you first start using it (to say the least). Maybe it has something to do with Python's "There should be one=97and preferably only one=97obvious way to do it" attitude? On 12/23/06, Russ Cox wrote: > > Should I be impressed that python, unlike so many gnu tools, compiles > > with 8c and actually works? IT seems I should. > > It's not a GNU tool. Like many non-GNU tools, it's just written > in portable ANSI C. > > One nice thing about Microsoft Windows is that lots of people > use it without gcc, so code that has been ported to Windows > typically is clean enough and structured well enough to make > a Plan 9 port easy. > > Russ > --=20 If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness. -- G=FCnter Grass