Folklore that I remember so unreliably I avoid trying to repeat it here
held that Python threading had problems on BSD and allied Unixes. What's
the status of this? I suspect the answer is, "Everything works, and the
only real problem ever was that *signals* have different semantics under
Linux a
I'm channeling a correspondent, who tells me that Python documentation
(Python 2.5 announcement, and so on) mentions compatibility of sources
with "the MS free compiler"; that's the default toolchain for Windows.
Apparently we're in conflict with Microsoft on that: some hyperlinks
refer to http:/
sors, what's most certain to me is
that we--computing people, academics, all of us together--really
don't know yet what the right answers are.
*My* personal desire: Python as a healthy industrial-strength
language strong enough to support such radical experiments as
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