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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:14:17 +1000
Subject: Re: My son wants me to teach him Python
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
> My favorite current challenge for an IDE designer is
> concatenating text files. This is a one-liner, even with cmd.exe,
> but I don't even know how to do it in Explorer. I'd have to use X
> number of text editing sessions.

Good point! Or, more generally:

HOW, with a standard point-and-squirt UI, do you invoke one specific
program with two specific data files? Sometimes you can drag two files
onto one program, but usually that involves two separate invocations
of the program, once for each. In theory you could have a concatenator
app, but how do you tell it when you're finished one concatenation and
want to start another? Time delay? Seems clunky and prone to doing the
wrong thing.

ChrisA