BASIC or Python?

[stremler at rohan.sdsu.edu]

In rec.games.roguelike.development Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes <kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>   However, do you not indent your code in C?
> if(foo)
> bar();
[snip]
>   It's a very old, very bogus argument, dragged out every time by the
> people who haven't used Python; once you program in Python, it becomes a
> non-issue.

I'll just quote:

   This is also one reason I dislike Python. Indentation is part of the
   documentation of the program, and as such it shouldn't be parsed by the
   compiler.                             -- Peter da Silva (September 1999)

-- 
   Stewart Stremler                                 stremler at rohan.sdsu.edu
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  I'm glad that you're beginning to understand the shortcomings of analogies
  and will bear that in mind in the future.        -- Peter da Silva (2001)