Guido van Rossum wrote: > > but now we're back to today's situation: > > > > >>> quit > > 'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.' > > > > which violates the basic "if you know what I mean, why the /!"&/&!//%¤ > > don't you do what I say" usability rule. > > What nonsense. Every Python programmer knows that the right way to > exit Python is to enter a platform EOF. The quit and exit variables > are compromises for non-programmers who have accidentally entered > Python and who don't know how to get out of it
why is it that "non-pythoneers" are always referred to as "non-programmers" ? is the current user base so large so we no longer need to care about people moving in from other environments ? (for those who follow non-python forums, there's a meme going around out there that says that python developers are arrogant, and will always defend the existing design with "we're right, you're wrong" or a "we're right, you're stupid", and that the current "exit" non-design is an excellent example of this. my proposal was partially motivated by an urge to prove them wrong, but it seems as I accidentally proved them to be right...) </F>
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