On Feb 13, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Hudson wrote:
And that's the whole crux of the matter: Most people who come to Python aren't interested in learning IDEs, or Python, or anything else. The only thing they're interested in doing is creating cool software to do useful stuff, and every second they're having to sit and learn some tedious crap before they can do that is a second they're being kept from achieving that goal.-- This is me. I am also fighting with my body. With my disabilities, I have to work smart than just work hard. Tools that allow me to type less, think more; design gui more, and redoing less.
Sure, there'll be some who enjoy all that "learning for learning's sake", but most are primarily task-oriented so you either directly help them reach that goal - e.g. by providing a completely intuitive drag-n-drop GUI builder so they can whip up that 2-minute UI when they need it - or you keep the hell out their way so you don't hack them off. Because if you do hack them off, or they think they can get better help by moving to another platform, then another platform is just where they're gonna go.-- Yup. that too is me. I am at a turning point in my programming life. I am tried of paying for upgrades to a company that doesn't understand testing and good documentation. I want to embrace open source but will open source embrace the newbie??
Let me know when you have that editor, with auto completion too ;-)
And for the record, when I can get my brain around Python, I will give back, I promise!
Andrew
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