As the article hinted, there's a lot to consider when reaching the headline figure. Here's the associated grain of salt: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/analysis-crazy-gr...

Multiline support - my prayers have been answered! Copying/pasting code and modifying multiline commands from your history was easily the most annoying thing about ipython.

Agreed, though %edit is still a better (and already existing) way to deal with multi line in my opinion ;)

For me it would be, if only the result of %edit would make it into the history...

Guilty as charged deletes tweets and learns lesson

In conclusion, use Vim instead. ;)

If you read Linus Torvalds' Q&A posted up a while ago, you'll see that Linus Torvalds doesn't think he's a rockstar either! http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w...

"I’m not a big visionary. I’m a very plodding pedestrian engineer, and I try to keep my eyes firmly on the ground."