[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:41 -0800, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> 
> That is simply not the case in the embedded space, and is far less of an 
> issue these days with Java 5 and Java 6 than it used to be.

That's true.  Now, as soon as all those vendors who love java start
agreeing on the same version/vendor, we'll be happy.  I'll be over here
looking like a smurf while holding my breath.

> 
> This is also an issue with Python, Perl, Ruby and any other interpreted 
> language. Any time something requires an interpreter you are going to have 
> this problem, to a greater or lesser extent.

Hey word here is lesser.  And even if it was a problem, installing an
extra python is nowhere near the same kind of pain level as installing
an extra java.  It's not like python duplicates every little bit of the
underlying OS, and thus needs patching for every little problem.  The
first time I have to patch both the underlying OS and python to update
timezone info, I'll buy you a beer.

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