From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 18:53:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25110 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:53:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25094 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00456; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:17:42 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199712010247.NAA00456@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Jacques Vidrine cc: Joerg Wunsch , "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:02:25 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 13:17:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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)