Re: How do you program in Python?
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Re: How do you program in Python?

From: Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 15:23:08 CEST

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Aahz wrote:

> In article <PO6dnYBe4OWczlXfRVn-uQ@powergate.ca>,
> Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com> wrote:
>
>> After 25 years doing this, I've become something of a Luddite as far as
>> fancy IDEs and non-standard features go... and a huge believer in
>> strict decoupling between my tools, to the point of ignoring things
>> that bundle them together in ways that are, in my opinion, too tight.
>> Sorry! :-)
>
> +1 QOTW

+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.

tom

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Received on Thu Sep 29 16:45:49 2005