On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:50 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > Yeah, well, some people like to be sheep, others like to be individuals**.
Yeah, well, some people like to be standards-compliant, others like to be irrelevant morons. > I start in computing at a time when an application was the only thing > running on a computer, at least, when people had personal computers of their > own. Then it really didn't matter what went on outside, as nothing did. > > (That approach seems to have become popular again with tablets and things > usually having one application occupying the screen at a time.) > > And within an application, it can do what it likes. It's 2017. Even on a phone/tablet, where there isn't enough room to usefully display more than one app *at a time*, you still have multiple apps. > With regards to editing, > there are some common conventions that I absolutely hate: > > * Under Windows, if you press Shift while Caps Lock is on, you get lower > case letters. I've never, ever wanted to do this (probably no one else has). > My own editor doesn't obey that convention: shift-A will always come out as > 'A' whatever the caps lock setting. > > There are dozens more, yet you are surprised why sometimes I prefer doing > things my own way? There are good reasons! Yep. Good reasons like that you're a moron. You assume that since *you* have never needed to produce one lower-case letter in a block of upper-case, that "probably no one else has", and then you make it impossible to do that in your editor. I have wanted to produce a lower-case letter by holding Shift. I have also used this behaviour to detect and recognize faults of various sorts. Do you understand the concept of debugging a system by getting more information, not less? > (**I was in the audience of a Michael Palin interview a couple of weeks > back. (You know, an actual Python!) Before he came on the audience was > programmed to respond to the word 'individuals' by all saying 'Yes, we are > all individuals!'. Apart from me, obviously.) Obviously. Which meant that the crowd created a joke, and you simply didn't take part in it. You became irrelevant. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
