Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:28:20 -0600 (CST) From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130212331.25349A-100000@kai.communique.net> In-Reply-To: <199712010247.NAA00456@word.smith.net.au>
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Duh, I may have been lost, I wasn't thinking about what is on the CD :-) I was thinking about what is installed in the "User" package, et. al. perl4 is, for example. Hmm, maybe I wasn't lost, I think the original question was regarding what is generally available in any installation? pkg_* works well for me, and AFAIK there isn't anything like the ports collection for Red Hat. I wouldn't trade it for RPM. I'm sure lines of FORTRAN code outnumber lines of Python code considerably. Though I believe that Python is giving FORTRAN and C a run for their money when it comes to numeric programming. But this conversation doesn't belong on this list. Later! Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I wish Python would be included as well ... but then I guess that everyone > > wishes that their fav language was included. > > It's right there on the CD, along with dozens of other pet languages. > > > Though Python'd probably be more useful than FORTRAN :-) > > Given the responses I've received to my occasionaly luser queries about > Fortran, I would be inclined to say that there is probably still more > Fortran code doing more Real Work on FreeBSD than Python code. > > > One of the few things I like about Red Hat Linux is that it has python > > preinstalled! > > This is merely because their moderately sucky(*) package management > system uses it. > > mike > > (*) This is in contrast to our extremely sucky package management > system. 8) > >
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