[Idle-dev] The Future of Python

[phil jones]

But if I understand correctly, you're using VIDLE not IDLE? Or did I
get that wrong?

On 10 February 2014 23:39, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> If I misunderstood, it is because IDLE works very well for my thousands of
> Python newbies.
>
> Bruce
>
> On Feb 10, 2014 6:10 PM, "phil jones" <interstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bruce : [quote]
>> I have the strong impression, including from Jessica's talk, that IDLE is
>> very objectionable to experienced programmers, and I would say simply that
>> they shouldn't use it.
>> [/quote]
>>
>> To be honest, I interpreted Jessica as saying the opposite. That IDLE was
>> not good enough for the *beginners* in her novice class. And that one of the
>> barriers to entry to python in general was the lack of a good entry level
>> development environment.
>>
>> I don't think this about professional programmers missing "advanced"
>> features.
>>
>> Phil