The "loop and a half"

[bartc]

On 08/10/2017 10:12, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 02:06 am, bartc wrote:

> Thousands of Python programmers on Windows successfully learned to use Ctrl-Z
> ENTER back in the days of Python 1.5, before quit/exit were added as a
> convenience for beginners, and many of them probably still use it.

Actually I NEVER normally use Python in interactive mode. Only to test 
how it works interactively. When I use Python, it's from my IDE.

>> I'm getting fed up with this thread now.
> 
> This thread would be a lot less frustrating if you would enter into it with a
> spirit of open-minded enquiry rather than an overbearing sense of superiority
> that anything others do that you don't must be worthless.

Frustrating for whom?

It seems to me that it's pretty much everyone here who has an 
overbearing sense of superiority in that everything that Unix or Linux 
does is a million times better than anything else.

Even with things like building applications (eg. trying to build CPython 
from sources), they are designed from the ground up to be inextricably 
linked to Linux scripts, utilities, makefiles, installation schemes, or 
designed to work with the Linux-centric gcc C compiler. Then when they 
don't work as well anywhere else, it's because Linux is so much better! 
No, it's because they were non-portably designed around Linux and 
therefore designed NOT to work well anywhere else.

It is also slightly frustrating for me when I see how Python is 
developing, with layer after layer and library after library piled on to 
achieve some fantastically complicated solution (one of 48 different 
ones to choose from) to replicate some basic functionality that could 
have been done in 5 minutes if GvR had decided to add it right at the start.

But this is a Python group and I have to restrain myself from such 
comments to avoid getting lynched. There is nothing wrong with Python!

-- 
bartc