Porridge 0.0
Neil Padgen
neil.padgen at mon.bbc.co.uk
Tue Jun 3 07:16:38 EDT 2003
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 6:58 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> Porridge 0.0 announced
> ----------------------
>
> Due to the extreme readability and reusability of most Python code,
> a fork has been announced that will correct this rampant code
> quality: Porridge.
>
> Building on the success of Python to date, Porridge will correct all
> the flaws that have been raised by opponents of Python.
>
> Features of Porridge 0.0 will include:
>
> - All standard library functions will be duplicated at least three
> times, in disparate modules, with different names and argument
> lists
>
> - No indentation allowed; blocks are delimited by common consent
> among
> your programming peers
>
> - [... I'm sure others can fill in this feature list ...]
>
Why bother to rewrite Perl though?
-- Neil
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