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Re: A love of languages

From scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject Re: A love of languages
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++
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Date 2022-04-08 17:47 +0000

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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>On 08/04/2022 16:53, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>> On 08/04/2022 14:16, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>>>> In comp.lang.c++ Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>> Additionally, it's hard to get Bash working on Windows. Bash is rather
>>>>> useless without a bunch of other tools like awk, sed, cp, mv, find, ...
>>>>>
>>>>> It is way easier to get a working Python installation.
>>>>
>>>> Is Python any easier?
>>>>
>> 
>>> The great majority of general-purpose Linux systems already have Python
>>> installed by default - so the usual Linux installation method is to do
>>> nothing.  (The only relatively modern Linux systems I have seen that
>>> don't have Python don't have bash either - they have busybox for their
>>> shell.)
>> 
>> While true, current distros include python3 by default and have
>> deprecated python2.  A problem since python3 won't run python2
>> code.
>> 
>
>It is usually entirely possible to write code that is compatible with 
>Python 2 and Python 3.  It can be an inconvenience, but it's typically 
>not bad if you decide to do that from the start.  (Alternatively, you 
>could just write your code for Python 3.)

There were millions of python2 programs written before python3
even was a gleam in whomever's eye.

Yes, there is p2p3 package to help when converting p2 to p3,
but that's still work that needs to be paid for and takes
effort away from more important work.

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A love of languages Jack Lemmon <invalid@invalid.net> - 2022-03-27 17:00 +0100
  Re: A love of languages Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-03-27 18:24 +0200
  Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-03-28 23:08 +0000
    Re: A love of languages Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2022-03-30 21:53 +0100
      Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-03-31 10:29 +0200
        Re: A love of languages Mateusz Viste <mateusz@xyz.invalid> - 2022-03-31 10:52 +0200
          Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-03-31 11:59 +0200
          Re: A love of languages Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-03-31 16:15 +0000
        Re: A love of languages Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-03-31 09:06 -0700
      Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-03-31 08:29 +0000
        Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-04-04 06:00 +0000
          Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-04 08:28 +0000
            Re: A love of languages Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2022-04-05 21:10 +0100
              Re: A love of languages red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2022-04-05 13:28 -0700
              Re: A love of languages om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2022-04-11 13:24 -0400
              Re: A love of languages om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2022-04-11 19:13 -0400
        Re: A love of languages legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2022-04-06 22:18 +0000
          Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-07 09:02 +0000
          Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-07 11:24 +0200
            Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-07 09:42 +0000
              Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-07 12:02 +0200
              Re: A love of languages Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-04-07 21:54 +0200
                Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-08 10:49 +0000
                Re: A love of languages Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-04-08 05:21 -0700
                Re: A love of languages Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-04-08 12:16 +0000
                Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 15:08 +0200
                Re: A love of languages Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2022-04-08 15:31 +0100
                Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 18:15 +0200
                Re: A love of languages Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2022-04-08 19:14 +0100
                Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 14:53 +0000
                Re: A love of languages David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-04-08 18:18 +0200
                Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 17:47 +0000
                Re: A love of languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-04-09 09:13 +0000
                Re: A love of languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-04-08 14:51 +0000
                Re: A love of languages Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-04-16 13:39 -0700
                Re: A love of languages Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2022-04-11 08:28 +0000
              Re: A love of languages legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2022-04-07 20:54 +0000

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