[Python-talk] Programming methods (was: Oops! Fallen off the track)

[Bill Sconce]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:29:36 -0400
Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:


>   These days, that's typically done instead with IDEs which allow you
> to cross-reference and analyze the source interactively.  It's akin to
> hypertext.  It's certainly faster than chasing cross-references by
> flipping pages.  :)


And offers ...  NONE  ... of the kinesthetic three-dimensional resources
that the human brain is so good at using, synthesizing, and remembering.
Meaning: dog ears on the corners of pages, pencilled notes in the margin,
etc.

Of course, you don't need much of that stuff.  Unless you maybe don't
remember everything you knew about those 180,000 lines of code "last
week".  Or unless, you're, like  ... trying to learn something new.

So, if you don't need to learn, and/or if your brain works like a
computer anyway, an IDE is maybe OK.


Who_let_HIM_out_from_under_a_rock?'ly yrs,

Bill