why is python better than eg. smalltalk?? no one has any solid arguments! you should all go to church with all that religious talk!

[Roy Smith]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> I found my editor fifteen years ago.  Guess which it is.

My guess is emacs, in which case I've got 6 or 7 years on you :-)

> (The point being that there are only two editors still in regular use 
> that were available fifteen years ago -- and those two editors are 
> still ubiquitous now.  Doesn't matter much which you pick, they'll 
> still be available fifteen years in the future.)

I suspect you're right, but I don't necessarily think that's a good 
thing.  Both emacs and vi have had long runs, but it's logical to assume 
that better things will come along.

I know it's possible to handle both news and email inside emacs, but I 
use dedicated GUI apps for both of those tasks.  I still use emacs for 
programming, but there's some really good IDE's out there, and my guess 
is they will become more and more the norm.  And while I curse and wail 
about how bad MS Word is, I also realize that troff just isn't happening 
any more (I did plenty of cursing and wailing about troff back in the 
"good old days").