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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:00:56 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] python
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> 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