Larry Wall's comment on python...

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On 6 Sep 2002, Rod Stephenson wrote:

> "Python is cool to look at small bits of, but I think the "outline"
> syntax breaks down with larger chunks of code. I'm with Aristotle on
> the structure of discourse--a story should have a beginning, and
> middle, and an end. So should blocks"
> 
> I'm not quite sure what he's trying to get at here - I guess that for
> a long heavily indented chunk of code, you could lose track of the
> overall structure, but I don't write code this way.
> 
> Any comments?

The very idea of Larry Wall lecturing on code readability is hilarious.

-Dave