Tom Anderson wrote: > +1 insight of the century. This is the heart of the unix way - lots of > simple little programs that do exactly one thing well, and can be > composed through simple, clean interfaces. For actually getting things > done, a toolkit beats a swiss army knife.
Perhaps, but I'm puzzled how that explanation would apply to emacs and those who use it as a swiss army knife, doing everything from editing to email to laundry in the same editor... (Note: this isn't a flame about emacs, nor vi for that matter, just a discussion about the apparent conflict in the two philosophies embodied by the "simple little programs" and the "emacs" approaches.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list