Python Rocks!

[Mikael Olofsson]

[tye4 going through the "indentation sucks" and "I miss end tags"
 stuff that we've heard before]

I've said this before: This is one of the things that got me hooked on 
Python. I was already used to indent the Python way before I knew 
about Python, and I used to forget all these start and end tags (like {} 
or whatever) in the languages I used then, probably because they were 
forced on me by the languages, and because they didn't help me read the
code. Today, with Python, I tend to forget the ":" in ifs, fors, whiles, 
and so forth, for the same reason. However, I do not write to this list
and ask why the ¤"#@ there is a ":" that does not make sense to me. I'm 
sure that there's a good reason, and if there were no good reason for it 
to be there from the beginning, there still is one now: Backwards 
compatibility.

I agree with the others who answered your posting: 

Try it, you'll like it.

And if you do not like it after you've tried it for a while, there is 
probably some other language that makes you feel better. Every language 
has its own flavour, and the indentation idea is a fundamental part of 
the Python flavour. 

I'm-glad-not-all-people-are-the-same'ly y'rs

/Mikael

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