Identation idiocy (was Re: Why so few Python jobs?)

[Dirck Blaskey]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<3BB00241.5667EED4 at engcorp.com>...
> Dave Swegen wrote:
> > 
> > At my workplace python is viewed with extreme suspicion by the
> > software engineering people for one simple reason: They're extremely
> > suspicious of the indentation issue (see my earlier post on this).
> > Apart from that they think it seems like a fine language. Ho hum. I'll
> > get there in the end.
> 
> I _really_ can't understand this kind of attitude, other than as
> being representative of the mentality that judges a book by its
> cover.  The indentation "issue" is a *non* issue, and even in this
> newsgroup where most of the complaints from newcomers probably 
> show up, there has been remarkably little said against it.

It's interesting to me that of the comments posted about indentation,
no one has remarked about what a *truly* insightful & _incisive_ feature this
is.  Complaints about it just make me laugh and shake my head.

d