What Python looks like

[Mel]

Ben Finney wrote:
> iu2 <israelu at elbit.co.il> writes:
>> Or Lisp for the first time looked like many words, no operators, how
>> could that make a program???)
> 
> I had no referent with which to compare Lisp when I first saw it. I
> did wonder "if the program is so nicely indented anyway, why are all
> these parentheses necessary?" That was many years before I encountered
> Python :-)

Coming from assembly language "no operators" was not something that
registered.  A big limitation of assembly language is that the instruction
operands have to be identifiable at assembly time.. linkedit time at the
latest.  Lisp has no such restriction.  Hence all the parens.

        Mel.