Python Rocks!

[William Tanksley]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:41:06 -0800, tye4 wrote:

>So you don't think this is a problem?? Hello!, read all the messages in this
>thread. Seems to me a lot of programmers have a problem with this.

ONE person aside from yourself.  Go ahead, count.

>Thanks to this quirk, I now have to worry how an editor saves tabs to files.

No, you don't.  Calm down and think for once.

>I have offered you many reasons why we need 'end' block support..

No, you haven't.  All you've done is claim that other languages don't use
indentation.  So what?  Python uses assignment.  ML doesn't.  Does that
mean ML is bad and Python is good, or is it the other way around?

>You have not offered a single reason why this is not a problem..

Yes, we have.  For example, we've offered the fact that it doesn't cause
any manner of problems in our collective, extensive experience which
wouldn't be caused by any other choice just as well.

Add to this the fact that the indentation syntax -- please read this -- is
one of the main reasons why we LIKE the language.  It's one of our
favorite features.  Take it away, and Python would be just another
scripting language (although with other good choices elsewhere).  Why, if
Python didn't use indents, there might be more than one way to do it!
That would be terrible.

>-tye4

-- 
-William "Billy" Tanksley, in hoc signo hack