Larry Wall's comment on python...

Rod Stephenson viking_kiwi at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 6 14:25:55 EDT 2002


Slashdot has a list of questions posed to Larry Wall (perl). When
asked his thoughts on other scripting languages, he makes the
following observation about python

"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?



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