My 1st /prog/ram

So I took /prog/'s advice and started learning python:

Here is my first ever program that is not copypasted from the tutorial. (I went further by not ONLY having it say 'too high' or 'too low' or 'you guessed it')

Am I doing it right or is declaring 5 variables a waste of time?
Why cant I just say
if a < 5:
    print('way too low') #?
why does it have to be a variable?

>>25
Seconded.

He's probably one of those idiotic drones that keep calling Emacs and Vim 70's abandonware. But the latest stable version of Emacs was released in September 2008 and the latest stable release of Vim was released in August 2008. And Vim development is still very active, and Emacs won't go the way of the dodo even if RMS can't work on it anymore. Doesn't sound very "abandoned" to me.