Apple introduces JScript, only 20 years too late
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Anyway, my point is the tabs/spaces mixing thing is also a non-issue because IDEs (you are using an IDE, right?) have auto-format features.
Not for Python, since there were maybe three times I've used Python anyway.
Still, it does nothing if you suddenly have no whitespace, because it got mangled when sending via IM or some similar shit. With braces, you can reformat in IDE easily, but with Python, you lose information.
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Do you have a good recommendation for an IDE for perl? I'm driving myself crazy trying to work on one of my old projects in notepad++.
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I actually use Eclipse with EPIC - Perl Editor and IDE for Eclipse
I've not tried Padre ( can't seem to get it to run, haven't tried very hard either… )Yes, Eclipse sucks. But so does everything else.
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Does Komodo work for Perl? I know it's able to handle several other languages and wouldn't be surprised at it supporting Perl too, but I don't know if it does.
Myself? I use emacs and have done since about 30 minutes after I first used Unix — when I found that xedit1 destroyed the file you were working on and vi was even harder to grok — but that's definitely not to everyone's taste. I've used many variants of emacs over the years, but I now just use it; I try to avoid programming it as well…
1 This was the old Athena-based xedit. It had a terrible UI (see below) “designed” by someone utterly misanthropic. Or maybe a grad student. In particular, the Save and Load buttons work on whatever you type into the text field next to them. Want to switch to a different file? Type the new filename in and press Load. Oh, but you want to save your work first? Press Save.
Now you've saved over the file you were about to load. Yeah. Fucking idiotic piece of shit.
Athena was bad too, as it had point-to-focus by default. We Don't Do It That Way Any More, and with good reason. Point-to-focus is a craptastically bad way to make a GUI work, especially if the mouse has a tendency to move a bit after you let go of it due to a stiff cable…
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Does Komodo work for Perl?
Yes. I know some who used it but I'm not sure how wonderful ( or not ) it was. They did say the freemium version wasn't even close to being as nice as the paid version.
Sigh...:
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Yes. I know some who used it but I'm not sure how wonderful ( or not ) it was. They did say the freemium version wasn't even close to being as nice as the paid version.
I did mean the paid-for version. The free one is severely cut down (mostly by not supplying the back-end tools that power those features IIRC/AIUI).
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I don't remember what the combo was in PyCharm, but I recollect it worked correctly.
Well, you didn't really answer my question, but it was a rhetorical question so it's all good.
you are using an IDE, right?
Yes. Emacs is very good at autoformatting.
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I think that I'm converting @blakeyrat!!
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Into what?
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A Python fan.
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Only if he can write Python in VS, by writing it in C#, and compiling it and using it on a Windows machine.
(Yes, I know there are plugins for VS to work with Python, they work well and I have used them, I just wanted to be a dick to @blakeyrat)
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@Intercourse said:
Only if he can write Python in VS, by writing it in C#, and compiling it and using it on a Windows machine.
(Yes, I know there are plugins for VS to work with Python, they work well and I have used them, I just wanted to be a dick to @blakeyrat)
He actually compiles the Python-generating C# code with a CLI.
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Oh no no no, the CLI is shit. @blakeyrat will tell you that a GUI is ALWAYS faster! You can fuck off with your Linuxes and greps and your manage.py runservers. Windows is the greatest thing ever, because @blakeyrat says so.