Whitespace as syntax (was Re: Python Rocks!)

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Tue Feb 8 14:12:15 EST 2000


fcahoon at my-deja.com wrote on 950024882:
> The popularity of a language cannot be taken as prima facie evidence of
> its technical superiority.  Consider Perl.  The number of modules
> available for Perl on CPAN is positively mind-boggling.  Does this mean
> that Perl must necessarily be a superior language?

This is a *very* true point.
[
("Windows NT", "Linux"),
("Perl", "Python"),
("Majordomo", "Mailman")
]

I'm sure a *lot* people in here can .extend() this list with many items.
In all of these cases, the latter is better than the former, but the
former has good things the latter hasn't too.

regards,
Gerrit.

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