Why Python/Jython?

[Andrew Kuchling]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> *blink* -- I'm hardly a Java-ite, myself, but
> "install and configure a minimal JDK" I would
> estimate as typically a 10-minute job (on, say,
> NT -- is it an order of magnitude harder on,
> say, Linux?!).  Maybe I misunderstand what
> you mean...?

A co-worker of mine once took an hour to install the JDK on Solaris;
most of this time was spent lost on Sun's horribly organized Web site
trying to find the exact version required.

--amk