> > It's interesting to watch the evolution of Perl and Python. They're > > really the same language, except that (a) Perl has a 5-8 year head > > start, and (b) the Python people refuse to accept anythying ugly into > > the language. > > They condensed their ugliness into the one huge wart on python: > the whitespace as syntax debacle. Guido should be forced to program > in FortranIV for a long time for that blunder.
I wouldn't regard it as a debacle, though it is certainly a difference. For my own work I find that the indentation as block syntax is quite helpful in keeping track of what's happening; and that a couple of heuristics along the lines of : if you are four or more layers deep you're doing something wrong : return statements that aren't on either the top or the innermost level of a function are a sign of trouble. can actually help you discover bugs before they manifest. -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
