Re: porting C library to Power i

I think there is one big difference John. With PHP Zend have already built and included many of the add on components that are needed into the IBM i base. With Python you seem to always have to get hold of those "extra" things and install them yourself. I have started using Python, but have been slowed down by encountering similar dependencies to the ones Paul has encountered. That has never yet happened to me with PHP.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 25, 2017, at 10:33 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Paul Nicolay <paul.nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I finally gave up on it... the idea for Python on i is nice but in the end it is too limited to be usefull.

There are a lot of pure-Python libraries. In particular, I find the
Python Excel-handling libraries far better and easier to use than the
corresponding ones for Java. For those who want to do Web stuff,
Python's offerings (Django, etc.) are comparable to anything else out
there.

Broadly speaking, Python is equivalently useful as any of the other
open-source dynamic languages on the i: PHP, Ruby, Node.js.

Of course, you may find all of them too limited.

John Y.
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