Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Even if you're stuck on some god-forsaken Windows PC with just > Notepad, you can still read Python code.
Ummm...Lisp ain't APL--it's just ASCII (or ISO-8859-1 or Unicode or whatever...), and thus just as readable in Notepad as anything else. > Now, *writing* Python code with Notepad isn't as easy, but it is still > doable. How about Lisp code? Given that fellows were writing Lisp code before there were CRTs (e.g. using teletypes to type), it's quite doable. Would I want to do so? Of course not, no more than I'd want to write Python in Notepad. > The day has not yet arrived that nobody ever needs to edit code in a > plain, vanilla text editor. My platform has emacs and vi by default. There are editors as brain-damaged as Notepad, but I never use them, and in an emergency they wouldn't run (as they require X). Now, force me to write Lisp _or_ Python in ed and things will get very ugly... -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> Whoa, there. Those are some strong words for somebody who doesn't even own a machine gun. --Milkman Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
