More stuff added to ch 2 of my programming intro

[Mensanator]

On Dec 17, 10:12 am, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap... at case.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Ned Deily <n... at acm.org> wrote:
>
> >> > or (for MacPorts fans):
>
> >> > $ sudo port install python31
>
> >> And since I haven't got one, this also tells me nothing.
>
> >http://www.macports.org/
>
> > "The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design
> > an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either
> > command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X
> > operating system."
>
> Description sans marketing fluff: It's a Mac package manager. It's
> basically the same as Gentoo's portage if you've ever used that. It
> downloads source tarballs and patches and then compiles them locally.
> There are built-in lists of "variants", basically sets of configure
> args, to compile each package.

That's the kind of thing I want to hear.

Looks like I can go ahead and get a Mac and not worry about getting
3.1.1 installed.

Thanks.