On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:56:17PM +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 11:04, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is 100% true. (At least the part where you say that "it's a > > problem". I'm not sure if "it doesn't need to be like this" is true - > > can you point to a language where the command line "just works" the > > way you suggest?) > > Python from 15 years ago :) Fifteen years ago, if I remember correctly, I had Python 1.5, 2.4 and 2.5 installed. (I may have some of the versions mixed up.) When I typed `python` at the command line, the OS read the faint electrical currents at my finger tips through the keyboard, extrapolated the state of my brain, predicted the interpreter I wanted, and unfailingly guessed the right one. Nah just kidding. I'm pretty sure it ran 2.4, always. > When installing julia you select the installer for your OS and there > are some instructions for setting up PATH (although I didn't need to > do that manually on OSX). After setup the instruction is that you type > "julia" in the terminal and then Ctrl-D to exit. There are no caveats > or mentions of different operating systems or words like "if" and > "usually". The setup process is platform specific but then the usage > instructions are not. So what happens when I have two different Julia versions installed? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/T3HHANHVUZOM67TA72R6LZFTMOZHJ2DM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
