Installing a compiler by default

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:38:50 +0200
> Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> Only experienced users should ever need a compiler...
> 
> Right - and how do people become "experienced" ?
> 
> By using things like compilers I guess...
> 
> (Personal history: 4 years ago I couldn't use a compiler. Linux taught me
> how)

But gcc??  When you can save the world in Python? :-)  

With all the arguments in favor, none of the others have actually been
for "using" the compiler directly.  They've been, either explicitly or
implicitly, to the effect that '". configure; make; make install" will
never work without a compiler' and that's something that I want to avoid at
all costs.  If I actually want to _program_, I use Python or Java, and a
wealth of python tools _are_ supplied with Ubuntu (though not, iirc, idle).
-- 
derek