tabs do WHAT?

[Ulf Engstrøm]

>BTW, people here seem to have adopted the idea that if you don't like
>a particular feature of a language, you should abandon it(e.g., "You don't 
>like indentation? Use Perl!"). But many languages have evolved exactly this 
>way: users criticize, complain, praize and whine, >thereby influencing the 
>shape of the languge in question. You can > >find a very nice description 
>of this process with respect to C++ >in "The Evolution of C++ : Language 
>Design in the Marketplace of >Ideas", by Jim Waldo (Editor), James Waldo 
>(Editor).

OKi, but I think the difference is that the tabbing is a main part of the 
Python language, one of the things that makes it different.
I don't like the {}, but I won't try to change C/C++ or any other languages, 
instead I use the language I find best and most useful. I like Python mainly 
because of it's simplicity while it at the same time is so powerful, and I 
really really like the intendation.

I got into a project that's been developed in Python during 2 years before I 
ever saw it. There were over 100'000 lines of code, and talking out of 
experience with other languages, I know that I couldn't have gotten into the 
that project that easily in any other language. Reading all this code from 
many other developers was made a lot easier with Python and a big reason was 
that the intendation is always there.

Best regards
Ulf Engstrøm

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