[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

[Dave McGuire]

   Well...no offense intended, my friend. ;)

          -Dave

On 10/16/21 7:42 PM, Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> 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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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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