[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib

[Mark Janssen]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:19:33PM -0700, Mark Janssen <
> dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The *only* thing I find "ugly" about it is that it doesn't have a
> > white-on-black color scheme.  Look at any hacker console and you won't
> find
> > a white screen.
>
>    Call me a bad hacker or not hacker at all -- I hate black
> backgrounds. My windows are always black-on-lightgrey, sometimes on dark
> grey, never black. I have been spending 16 hours a day at the screen for
> last 25 years -- and never understood black background.


Lol, funny.  It takes energy to display a phosphor, but none for black.  So
I don't know how it could be harder for the eyes.  Plus, it's "hacker
nostalgia" for me, going back to assembler and BASIC on an Apple II.  But I
think this thread discussion happened decades ago.

Mark
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