Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 13:43, Tim Chase wrote:
> Well, let's take a look at their native file formats:
> 
> Inkscape: SVG
> 
> Libreoffice: compressed XML
> 
> Firefox: HTML+CSS+JS
> 
> Musescore: compressed text
> 
> Dia: compressed XML

None of those are "text" in the sense being discussed here, which is
"preferred method of viewing and editing is a text editor".

You could, for example, design a programming language that uses XML
markup to associate comments with specific positions in the code and the
editor displays them in little callout boxes when you hover over them
with the mouse. That's not done because of the notion that code has to
be plain text. The fact that the resulting format would still be a text
format that could theoretically be edited with a text editor isn't
relevant to this discussion.