What does Python fix?
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Thu Jan 17 11:19:13 EST 2002
"Mark McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> writes:
> Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> > I don't know; I think most programmers are simply far too conservative
> > and too intolerant of superficial syntactical features. Witness how
> > much flak Python, an otherwise fairly conventional languages, takes
> > for its one unconventional feature, indentation. With this attitude,
> > Lisp with its parenthesis-heavy syntax doesn't stand a chance, no
> > matter how good or bad the language itself is.
>
> Yeah, but in the case of indentation, it only takes a little while to go
> from hating it to not seeing how one could live without it. (That was the
> case with me. I hated indentation at first and now I love it.)
>
> As for Lisp's parentheses, I've never used Lisp,
Well, in view of your preceding paragraph, why do you need to carry
on?
Cheers,
M.
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