New to Python: Features

[Richard Blackwood]

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>I suspect that with the same tricks used in 'lingua latina perligata'
>you could make Perl use whitespace like Python, while keeping deeper
>semantic aspects, such as the ability to add integers and strings, which
>you appear to keenly desire.
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>Alex
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Really?  I can make Perl use whitespace?  Can I get rid of the horrid 
symbols too?