You are not alone
In the sense I too am trying to code between browsing and posting.

Not in the sense that I am surreptitiously ensconced in the ceiling of your office and watching you type. Not me...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 16:58, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I'm trying out Python
and it's really quite lovely. I think I'll teach it to the second years next term.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:04, Reply)

(Fnar Fnar...Fnar Fnar)
I've never tried it but have heard great things about it. It's got to be less of an arse than IDL.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:10, Reply)

The only drawback so far
is the Mac keyboard's distinct lack of an easy # key.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:16, Reply)

# for comments, presumably?
I could smugly say it's your own fault for using a Mac, but that would be a bit pot/kettle/black from someone who only has Windows on their work computer.

I only use IDL because everyone else in my group does, so it's easy to exchange bits of code. If they'd just switch to Python (or similar) I wouldn't need a licence to run it from home and I wouldn't need to come into work. Though I'd probably never leave the house if that were the case, and go on to become a major internet fatty, festering in a stack of my own refuse.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:22, Reply)