Larry Wall's comment on python...

Cliff Wells LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 20 06:49:39 EDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:06, Matt Gerrans wrote:
> One of the niftiest things about Python is you never have to argue about
> whether you should put your curlies in the wrong place, like this:
> 
> void foo() {
>    //...
> }
> 
> ...or whether you should place them correctly, like this:
> 
> void foo()
> {
>     //...
> }
> 
> It saves the world from a lot of unnecessary creation and release of hot air
> (so Python has probably done more to help reduce the greenhouse effect than
> any other software technology!).

Now all that's left to decide is whether to use tabs or spaces for
indentation...

;)

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