How do you program in Python?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-07-05, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> +1 insight of the century. This is the heart of the unix way - lots of 
>> simple little programs that do exactly one thing well, and can be 
>> composed through simple, clean interfaces. For actually getting things 
>> done, a toolkit beats a swiss army knife.
>
> Perhaps, but I'm puzzled how that explanation would apply to emacs and
> those who use it as a swiss army knife, doing everything from editing to 
> email to laundry in the same editor...

It doesn't.  Emacs doesn't follow the Unix way.

> (Note: this isn't a flame about emacs, nor vi for that matter,
> just a discussion about the apparent conflict in the two
> philosophies embodied by the "simple little programs" and the
> "emacs" approaches.)

Who said there wasn't a conflict?

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