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> R has a great packaing system, and it copied Perl I almost used Perl as an example of Python's inverse - a crappy language wrapped in a good packaging system
by notacoward 6y ago
> R has a great packaing system, and it copied Perl
I almost used Perl as an example of Python's inverse - a crappy language wrapped in a good packaging system. For its time CPAN was pretty great. All of the things today that people are likely to hold up as being better drew inspiration from it.
> which is much older than Python
Perl 1987, Python 1989. So yes it's older, but much older?
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoFair, I realised that the difference wasn't that large after I posted. I'm just so annoyed by Python's (lack of a) packaging system that it makes me prone to hyperbole. It's been frustrating me at work all week, and I suspect that it will be a low-grade annoyance for me in my career for the next few years, as I'm a Data Scientist and hence need to deal with Python a lot.
- int_19h 6y agopip is a packaging system, and it ships out of the box with Python. It may not be the best one around, but there certainly isn't a lack of one.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoDoes it ensure that packages in the environment are consistent with one another? If not, I'm not sure what it does that curl won't do.
- int_19h 6y agocurl won't resolve dependencies.