[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

[Alexander Jacocks]

Wow. I love Perl, and even I think that a window manager written in it
seems like a stroll down the path towards insanity.

- Alex

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 6:59 PM Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> Dave, surely you use PerlWM ... ?
>
> http://perlwm.sourceforge.net/shots.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 11:41:46 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10
>
> On 10/16/21 1:39 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
> >>> *: Answers of "Any version of python anywhere is a bad idea" obviously
> >>> accepted here in the spirit intended, but not necessarily helpful to
> >>> the pkgsrc list :-p
> >>
> >> In my experience, people who say that didn't endure the Perl era. ;)
> >
> > I don't know...I think I'd take Perl's legacy cruft and peculiarities
> over the
> > pain that was the Python 2 -> 3 transition :P
>
>    Well I certainly can't disagree with you there. (and I'm someone who
> can almost always find a way to disagree)  I'm no big fan of Python; any
> language in which whitespace is a syntactic element rubs me the wrong
> way.  But Perl still looks like line noise to me.  What a nasty,
> disgusting language.
>
>                -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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