Re: An alternative to Tcl, python, etc...

Josef Dalcolmo (josefd@albert.ssl.berkeley.edu)
5 Oct 1994 20:02:05 GMT

In article <DJOHNSON.94Oct5120533@seuss.ucsd.edu>,
Darin Johnson <djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>In article <36ql26$iar@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
>> 2. In my opinion, S-Lang has the most pleasing syntax of any of the other
>> interpreters:
>
>But it looks like C! C does not have a nice pleasing syntax, IMHO.
....

That's why you should use python!

Python is _very_ readable, object oriented, embeddable and runs stand-alone,
extensible in C, has all the data structures you will ever want, in a syntax
that can be remembered. It has more than one interface to Xlib (also tk),
MS-Windows, ... Runs on many architecures and more

Ftp access
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The latest Python source distribution can be ftp'ed from site
ftp.cwi.nl, directory /pub/python, file python<version>.tar.Z. You
can also find PostScript of the main Python documentation there,
Macintosh and PC binaries, and the latest STDWIN source distribution
(in directory /pub/stdwin). Mirror sites are gatekeeper.dec.com
(/pub/plan/python/cwi), ftp.wustl.edu
(/graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/python) and ftp.uu.net
(/languages/python) -- try these sites first if you are on the US
continent, or at least closer to it than to Europe. These mirror
sites are at most a day behind on the European archive!

If you don't have ftp access, send mail containing only the word HELP
to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com or bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu, and the
server will send you instructions on how to make requests.

- Josef