I'm not the biggest Zed fan out there because I find him to be overly defensive at times, but this is a small section of a larger work aimed at teaching people how to program in a certain language. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I learn a new language, I open a basic text editor and a command prompt and get to it, because it forces me to learn the style and convention of the language. Once I've got that down, I'll use whatever the hell makes me the most useful.
I'm not the biggest Zed fan out there because I find him to be overly defensive at times, but this is a small section of a larger work aimed at teaching people how to program in a certain language. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I learn a new language, I open a basic text editor and a command prompt and get to it, because it forces me to learn the style and convention of the language. Once I've got that down, I'll use whatever the hell makes me the most useful.
Context matters.