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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:39:28 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-08-06, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Because on such operating systems, each and every application is an
>> > entirely self-contained package that doesn't need any "packages" or
>> > "installers" to use it.
>
>> For people who have never used such a system it's probably difficult
>> to see the  advantages.
>
> That's the whole point.
>
> The problem is that the ones who "decide" (well, they pretend to, but
> actually can't, because they don't know the alternatives) are always
> people who are "not even clueless".

Ha!  I love it.  I presume that's an allusion to that-other-Wolfgang's
apocryphal "not even wrong" comment.  :)

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