Microsoft may suck at life but they understand developers
Yes, giving away free laptops to developers is desperation. But it's the same desperation every platform vendor should be feeling.
simplicity
24 Nov 2009
Last week, my friend Mike Downey (who now works at Microsoft) tweeted:
Wow - can't believe we are giving away free laptops to all paid PDC attendees! Very cool! #pdc09
One of the things that I love about Python is that it has all the documentation you ever need (all right, almost) in the code itself. Many moons ago, the very first framework I wrote in ActionScript (Flash 5) used the same technique by placing documentation on the activation objects of functions (and it would be cool to see that practice make a comeback in AS3.)
In Python, to find out what properties an object has, you just ask for a listing. The following, for example, shows you all properties and methods on the os module.