OT: Should I learn bash/C/python/perl/other

[Dave Mitchell]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> There was a few years ago a very high-profile project headed by Eric
> Raymond to implement the Linux kernel configure-and-build system in
> Python.  It failed to happen for the Linux kernel (and was picked up by
> other projects) for probably multiple reasons.  But one of the most
> cited downsides was the not-as-portable nature of Python relative to C,
> make, bash/sh, etc.

I think it was Larry Wall who pointed out that C was ubiquitous rather
than portable :-)

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