Nice. People often dismiss IDLE as too basic, but at least is available by default in the base system. That's godsend when you're taking your first steps learni

Nice. People often dismiss IDLE as too basic, but at least is available by default in the base system. That's godsend when you're taking your first steps learning a language. I believe IDLE single-handedly made me a Python programmer instead of a Ruby programmer. I tried Ruby first, to this day it think it's even a nicer language, drawing much inspiration from Smalltalk. But trying to set the environment for the first time, I got stuck trying to call the ruby interpreter from a text editor, and gave up. With Python there was IDLE out of the box, and there was no such problem. Languages that save you the chore of assembling a proper environment from loose parts by hand before any actual programming are a blessing.