> software to do useful stuff, and every second they're having to sit > and learn some tedious crap before they can do that is a second > they're being kept from achieving that goal.
On the other hand, I recently did a quick in-office tutorial of "order some pizza, throw one of our legacy perl scripts up on the video projector[1], port it to python over lunch" - and while it had the usual python-related positive impact (look at these long-hidden bugs we've exposed and fixed, look at how easy to read the new code is even for the people who've only been doing python for a month) what startled me was the number of people who concluded "wow, I *need* to learn emacs" who previously thought of it as "just another editor" just from watching me do the kind of stuff I take for granted. So maybe it gets in the way - or maybe, if you actually expect to do this for more than a week or a month, it's a useful productivity tool/life skill - even if you don't stick with python... > Me, I'm off to hack up a Script Editor clone now, so you can guess which Good luck! [1] the projector hooked to a powerbook, if that brings it at least vaguely back on topic, but I'm mostly a mac-as-unix type, not a mac-as-platform type. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
