age of new pythonistas [was: The Editor Poll results are in!]

[Peter Wang]

Steven Rumbalski <srumbalski at prodigy.net> wrote in message news:...
> Ville Vainio wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Ditto with TCL. When I see 8 backslashes in a row, I look elsewhere
> 
> Ditto with Python.  When I see lines of code terminated by nothing but 
> whitespace, I look elsewhere.
> 
> asthetic-shock-a-poor-judge-ly yours,
> Steven Rumbalski

point taken, but bad example.  the Hamming distance between 7 and 8
backslashes is very small to a programmer but very large to a
computer, whereas programmer and computer will generally agree as to
whether whitespace is terminal.

-peter