On Jun 20, 8:52 am, Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found Emacs to be user friendly, but in a different sense than the, > IMHO faulty definition, "beginner friendly". Emacs let me, as a user, > do more with less effort and provides a lot less friction than many > other developer tools I've used. at work I use it extensively, and we > have lots of neat extensions that really save a lot of time.
Being beginner-friendly doesn't have to be at the expense of power or expert-user usability. On the other hand, being actively beginner-hostile leads to nobody adopting the tool. Then again, if you don't mind being the last generation that'll ever use it, then I guess you're okay with that. If it suits its existing users, the rest of us will just continue to use something else. I continue to suspect that there's an ulterior motive for making and keeping certain software actively beginner-hostile; a certain macho elitism also seen with light aircraft pilots and commented on at www.asktog.com (exact URL escapes me; sorry). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
