From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:42:08 +0000, Richard Kettlewell
 wrote:

>Steve Hayes  writes:
>> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>>>On 19/01/2026 04:10, c186282 wrote:
>>>> I know some here HATE Python ... but it really IS
>>>> almost infinitely useful these days. The look and
>>>> feel is sort of BASIC, sort of FORTRAN, sort of Pascal++.
>>>> It Just Works.
>>>
>>>I've not used any of those languages in decades, either.
>>
>> I've played with Python, BASIC and Pascal.
>>
>> The thing I don't understand about Python is why it is so popular when
>> it is an interpreted rather than a compiled language, so it can't
>> produce stand-alone programs.
>
>That’s debatable, but either way, most people don’t care about that
>enough to impact language choice.

So do all versions of Linux come with a built-in Python interpreter?


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