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

[Denys Duchier]

dirck at pacbell.net (Dirck Blaskey) writes:

> 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.

Insightful, yes; considering it was proposed by Landin in 1966 :-)

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