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

[Chuck Wolber]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

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> I hate to beat a dead horse, but with *nix, in python, if you want to 
> access timezone data, you eventually get a python interpreter that is 
> making calls out to glibc to fetch that info.  But with java, that 
> doesn't happen.  Java has it's own copy of the timezone data.

[...]

This is an excellent point to make. What about when Python wants to do X 
but there is no native facility for X? I would imagine that it then has to 
implement that from scratch as best as possible, but I do know know enough 
to say for sure. Perhaps this problem has never happened? I doubt it.