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

Wolfgang Keller feliphil at gmx.net
Wed Aug 13 07:46:45 EDT 2014


> >> > Because on such operating systems, each and every application is
> >> > an entirely self-contained package that doesn't need any
> >> > "packages" or "installers" to use it.
> >
> >> For people who have never used such a system it's probably
> >> difficult to see the  advantages.
> >
> > That's the whole point.
> >
> > The problem is that the ones who "decide" (well, they pretend to,
> > but actually can't, because they don't know the alternatives) are
> > always people who are "not even clueless".
> 
> Ha!  I love it.  I presume that's an allusion to that-other-Wolfgang's
> apocryphal "not even wrong" comment.  :)

Exactly.

And it's also an allusion to that statement that "knowledge means to
know what you don't know".

Sincerely,

Wolfgang



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