On Jun 20, 4:35 pm, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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). > > You are babbling.
No, I am not. You, however, are being gratuitously insulting. > Emacs is amazingly beginner-friendly for the power and flexibility it > provides. [snip] That's a joke, right? I tried it a time or two. Every time it was rapidly apparent that doing anything non-trivial would require consulting a cheat sheet. The printed-out kind, since navigating to the help and back without already having the help displayed and open to the command reference was also non-trivial. Four hours of wasted time later, with zero productivity to show for it, I deleted it. The same thing happened again, so it wasn't a bad day or a fluke or a one-off or the particular version, either. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
