Community (A Modest Proposal)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:20:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote about IDLE:

>>   We are at once lucky to have a built in editor
> 
> It is certainly a boon to someone like me who now only programs in
> Python and had no experience, let alone commitment to any of the current
> alternative.


I know that lots of people swear by IDEs, and back in Ancient Days I used 
to use the THINK Pascal IDE on a Macintosh so I'm not hostile to the 
idea. But in those days you could only run one app at a time, so you 
needed an IDE or you'd go insane. These days I have an xterm open with a 
couple of tabs in one window, an editor open in the other, and it all 
Just Works. The only nuisance is when I get a traceback, I have to 
manually copy the line number from the terminal window and paste it into 
the Go To Line dialog in my editor, instead of the editor magically 
scrolling to the right line automatically. But other than that, I don't 
see the advantage of an IDE. What am I missing?



-- 
Steven