On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:52:05PM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > I've never heard of a scripting language that's not available on Windows. > > It depends what you mean by available. I expect Unix systems to come > with bash, perl, python, and many more out of the box. Each of these > things can be installed on Windows, just as you can install Windows > versions of grep, awk, sed, vi ... The difference is that Unix just > always has these things without needing to do something as ridiculous > as cygwin.
Not only that, but Cygwin often introduces little quirks or outright bugs that make it a not-quite first-class development environment. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
