Python and Industry, IBM I'm afraid

[D-Man]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:41:25AM +0000, Simon B. wrote:
[snip]
| on the '400. The main issue is that the AS/400 doesn't come with a C
| compiler. There is a C compiler available, but it's expensive, and

I don't know much about the IBM hardware products, but I did see AIX
mentioned in this thread and have heard of gcc on AIX.  I have also
heard that gcc doesn't work reall well on AIX, but it would/could be
worth a try.


<curiosity digression>
	I have a part time job at a local grocery store that has a
	video department.  The computer system they use is an IBM
	mainframe with AIX (4 I think).  What is the language that the
	software is most likely written in (earliest copyright on it
	is late '80s, around the time the ANSI C standard was
	published)?  COBOL or C (or some other language)?
</curiosity digression>

-D