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

[robert]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote in message news:<c5alj7$afu$1 at panix2.panix.com>...
> In article <roy-5C8DA0.23052910042004 at reader1.panix.com>,
> Roy Smith  <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> >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 :-)
> 
> Funny that two people made the same guess, when y'all could have gotten
> the correct answer by going to my personal web page.  ;-)
> 
> http://rule6.info/
> 
> >> (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.
> 
> Not too bloody likely.  There just isn't any development work on new
> console editors these days, and many of us will give up our consoles
> when you pry them from our cold, dead fingers.
> 
> >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").
> 
> You need to try reST.

since my fingers only know vi, i've been using Visual SlickEdit on windoze
for a long time, since it does vi.  for java and C it does all that
syntax stuff.  anyone found a super-vi that does the same for python?