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Python on OpenVMS

Every twelve months or so, I try and teach myself a new programming language or technology. In the last year, I have been playing a lot with Java and related technologies.

The time has come to move on to something else, and after looking around, I decided to look at Python.

A couple of factors influenced the selection of Python, most notably the fact that Python is available for OpenVMS.

The other thing is that Mark Pilgrim has a pretty awesome Python tutorial online.

Unfortunately, the OpenVMS Python kit requires minimum version 3 of the C RTL patch for OpenVMS 7.3, so it looks like I am rebooting the Alpha at home. I will take the opportunity to apply a bunch of patches that I don't have loaded at the same time...