[Python-Dev] Python 1.7 tokenization feature request (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:16:41 +0100

Greg wrote:

> ...I can't think of a single reason why any sane programmer would be > writing programs in Microsoft Word or whatever it is that you're > talking about. =20 'S funny --- my non-programmer friends can't figure out why any sane person would use a glorified glass TTY like emacs... or why they = should have to, just to program... I just think that someone's going to do = this for some language, some time soon, and I'd rather Python be in the = lead than play catch-up.

I don't get it. the XML specification contains a lot of stuff, and I completely fail to see how adding support for a very small part of XML would make it possible to use XML editors to write Python code.

what am I missing?