On 09/20/17 04:42, Pete Biggs wrote:
Straying OT ...
On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote:
Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc.
It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and
I for one call python "sneaky snake" just because of that ;-), as about
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Yeah, in addition to my reaction to "you're using *whitespace* as a syntax
element?!", I had an early dislike of python, when each new sub-release
broke things that had worked in the previous.
+1
As a sysadmin/programmer I really detest using indents to denote
lexical level. But when I have ever expressed such opinions I am
invariably shouted down and told that it makes programming easier and
I'm just an elitist nerd. And don't get me started on the incompatible
point releases.
That's not to say I don't indent ALL THE TIME, it certainly makes it far
easier to read - don't let me get started about any HTML editor/word
processor, that left justifies *completely* - but that it's a syntactic
element, equivalent to semicolon in most other languages, disturbs me.
Enforcing good style by compiler...
mark
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