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Pythons, Perl, and gcc are commonly part of Linux distros. C compilers have been part of Unix since K&R. They are necessary to install the system.

Hell, noobs rPi’s come with the Wolfram language too.



Being part of distros doesn't mean they are installed, specially on commercial UNIXes since compiler tools became a separate product.

Better read the history of gcc, it was commercialization of UNIX C compilers introduced by Sun, that made people start paying attention to gcc. Until then it was a largely ignored effort.

Finally I don't believe that anyone skilful enough to learn how to install Linux, is not able to install a compiler.




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