Python and Flaming Thunder

[Dan Upton]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Dave Parker
<daveparker at flamingthunder.com> wrote:
>
> For another example, I've always preferred languages that are English-
> like because it's easier to return to your code after several years
> and still know what you were doing (and it's easier for someone else
> to maintain your code).
>

Unless of course you use reasonable variable names and have good
comments in your code.  I don't think figuring out well-documented C
code would be any easier if it were in a more English-like
syntax--IMO, it's usually the understanding the interfaces or figuring
out what's going on in functions that makes reading someone else's
code tricky, not the difference between "x=" and "set x to."