Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:41:56AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > That's what I would mean by basic sys-admin skills. And *surprise!* > > my students don't have them, and don't need them ... until they start > > using Python. > > Is it *only* Python though? Wouldn't that be necessary if they were > learning Perl, Java, C, Ruby etc? I'm sure it is. But as I say *my* students are pretty naive, so they only use languages supported by me (Python and R, but almost exclusively Python) in Jupyter and installed via Conda. Not a lot of folks around here can speak all of those, Japanese, and English, and read minds in Chinese.[1] Otherwise they use site-licensed commercial software (mostly SPSS, Mathematica, and office software). Footnotes: [1] This is the easiest part of all. It's not hard to guess what the students are whispering in Chinese when you've just prohibited use of Chinese in the seminar room. :-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KHXH5D6LBSADHZ2NMIWWNUK2CE6IZ42Q/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/