2013/8/20 Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@xxxxxxxxx> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dan Munro <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY > > > reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't > > > imagine. > > > > > > 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an > > > interpreted programming language. > > > > 1. Indent properly. In php, if you put an open or close brace out of > place > > your code will break in unexpected ways as well. If it's hard to tell if > > something is indented properly, your code should be refactored so that it > > is. > > > > 2. In my experience this has a lot to do with how some people use python > > and not python itself. > > > > > I can't argue on point two, since that's where all of my worst failure have > come from. But as to indenting, I have had the problem of opening a file > on a new OS, only to find that the default editor there has wiped out my > formatting. Who is with me? Thats a good point to restart the tabs-vs-spaces-discussion, isn't? *duckandrun* :D > With PHP, that's not a big deal: as long as I put my braces > in the right places, everything will continue to work. With Python -- or > any whitespace delimited language -- it's fatal, and I have to hope I can > exit without saving anything. > > Andy > -- github.com/KingCrunch
