The best platform and editor for Python

[Paul McGuire]

On Jul 5, 9:21 am, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <1183644537.859604.27... at w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>  Nicola Musatti <nicola.musa... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath <g... at gregor-horvath.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > That's a property of open source projects.
> > > Features nobody really needs are not implemented.
>
> > No, no, you got it all wrong. It's in *commercial* projects that
> > features nobody really needs are not implemented.
>
> No, no, squared.  In a commercial project, the only features that get
> implemented are the ones somebody is willing to pay for.  Whether there is
> any correlation between need and willingness to pay is an open question.

Then tell us, pray, who was willing to pay for the epitome of useless
features in MS Word, that Useless Features' Useless Feature, the
ability to format text with the animated effect "Marching Red Ants"?
I'm sure I paid for it, but it wasn't willingly...

-- Paul