On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 9:17:16 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasing > > feeling that my students are getting fedup with it (and me). > > I don't understand. > > Why do your students even _know_ (let alone care!) what editor you > use? > > I admit it was years ago, but after attending three universities and > getting a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Computer Science and > Electrical Engieneering, I hadn't the foggiest idea what editors any > of the faculty used. Nor would I have cared one way or the other if I > had known.
Its 2015 now and any ½ decent teacher of programming, writes programs in front of the class. And debugs and hacks and pokes around OS-related stuff (ps, top and more arcane) etc. [Yeah I did hear complaints about an OS teacher who puts up PPTs and reads them out. So the set < ½-decent is not empty I guess] So while emacs makes everything else look rather puerile, setting it up is such a bitch that last python course I just switched to idle. Must admit it was more pleasant than I expected. Except that sometimes we need C and C++ and assembly and haskell and make and config files and git commits and... And so emacs (or eclipse!!) remains the only option -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
