Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 2 20:04:56 EDT 2014


MRAB wrote:
> RISC OS didn't have a menu bar at the top of each window either; its
> menus were all pop-up. You didn't have to keep flicking the mouse at
> all!

The main reason for having a menu bar is discoverability. The
idea is that you can browse through the menus and get a feel
for what commands are potentially available to you. That's not
so easy to do when everything is hidden in contextual menus.

-- 
Greg



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