John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Sun Nov 18 17:29:06 EST 2007

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Paddy wrote:
> On Nov 17, 1:46 pm, Brian <not_here at no_where.com> wrote:
>> Had a unsettling conversation with a CS instructor that
>> teaches at local high schools and the community
>> college. This person is a long-term Linux/C/Python
>> programmer, but he claims that the install, config, and
>> library models for C# have proved to be less
>> problematic than Python. 

   He has a point.  Many Python enthusiasts are in denial about this,
but, face it, the binary library situation isn't in good shape.

   Try running something that needs, say, MySQL and OpenSSL on a
shared hosting server and see how far you get.  Or try to install
the same set of modules on both Linux and Windows.

				John Nagle

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