"Robert Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/01/20/getters-setters-fuxors
"...Many people coming to Python can't believe no one uses IDEs. The automatic assumption is that Python is for old grey beards who are comfortable with vi and Emacs and refuse to accept breakthroughs in programming productivity like IDEs. Then they write a little Python code and realize that an IDE would just get in their way."
FuManChu
[response]
It's also not true. Lots of people use IDEs - look at the number of Python IDEs out there, and the number of attempts (some of them reasonable) to add Python support to Eclipse.
The thing is, there are relatively fewer programming tools needed to work with Python than there are for Java, for example, so the available IDEs are much simpler.
Line oriented editors are an acquired taste, and they are one I've never acquired regardless of the environment. I've used both edit under TSO and vi on a timesharing arrangement with an AIX system, and both of them suck compared to the screen editors available.
John Roth
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