@Armando:.....................
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in fact tells
a lot about your personality; that would be very unusual to see from almost any other weather-bitten *nixoid. Thank you on behalf of seasoned Windows partisans!
As for Python and how it appeared in my possession, among the 2.9TB of Windows SW I've hosted on my workstation and used for decades now, there are only two proggies that would rely on concurrent Python 2.4 and Python 2.6 installations. The first one is respectively an older version of the weird GNU GPL piece of 3D model editing software called
Blender, and the other one is a newer version of the same. By no means would I advocate for, or even look at if I can avoid it (which I can't when I'm under Linux),
an interpreter that's able to fry a
multi-core CPU in a few code lines of
single-threaded process that's no worse than a tight empty loop. One has to be exceptionally elaborate to design a disastrous burn-in test for a modern CPU in any other -- saner -- language that I'm aware of.
@John: (or should it be Jon in Paul's notation? )You know, I've grown me a callus on that side of my ego that's facing the BP's top blogger (that thread's OP), to substitute for the "ignore" functionality missing in their legacy forumware. It allows me to lurk, from time to time, in that far-away corner of contemporary BASIC scene as well. After all, there are a few creative persons there too like e.g. Paul or Jochen though of course none of them are by any means easy-goers either. Yet the wealth of info that can still be found, despite the overall decline, at the leading BASIC sites such as PB Peer Support Forums, Jose Roca's site, FreeBASIC's modern-syntax boards, and a few Russian and Latino VB6 forums, is incongruously more professional, instructive and practical for both beginners and advanced-level users of today. Interestingly, arguably the oldest but still rather active BASIC user can be frequently found not at BP dot org but rather at the BCX Yahoo group.
BCX BASIC! At 95 years of age, Carl!Long live 5th generation BASICs! is all that comes to my mind.
Now take a seat and make yourself comfortable, John. I'm gonna tell you, George Carlin-style, an Oriental parable about
Nasreddin Hodja, a witty and cunning but extremely poor Arab dervish, to illustrate why I wouldn't take part in the argument any further than I did.
They say one day the pauper Nasreddin Hodja brought home a purse full of gold and proudly put it on the table before his wife. "What's that? Did you steal it?", asked she suspiciously. "No, no! I made a bet with Padishah for ten thousand gold pieces that in the coming fifteen years I would, inshallah, teach my donkey to understand human speech and respond legibly. This gold is the thousand pieces I got as an advance to cater for the animal in the meantime", said Hodja. "You must be mad! You're gonna have your head chopped off!", gasped his wife and burst into tears. "There, there!", said Nasreddin patting his wife on the shoulder, "Nothing to worry about here, woman: I reconed in the fifteen years to come before I'm supposed to submit the results, either the donkey would die, or Padishah, or both".