tabs do WHAT?

[Thomas Hamelryck]

Richard Brodie <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

[snip]

: C++ has to be the classic case of a language that evolved rather than
: was designed: PDP-11 assembler with OO bits tacked on. If we can
: learn something from its evolution, it should be not to do the same
: again.

C++ is a monster because of its origin (comptibility with C),not because
of the way it evolved. The evolution of python is quite similar as far as
I can see : people try out new stuff (e.g. Tismer's stackless python), some 
of it ends up in the official python distribution. 

Cheers,

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Thomas Hamelryck    Institute of Molecular and Structural Biology
Aarhus University   Gustav Wieds Vej 10C
DK-8000 Aarhus C    Denmark