Dan Jacobson wrote: > Can I feel even better about using perl vs. python, as apparently > python's dependence of formatting, indentation, etc. vs. perl's > "(){};" etc. makes writing python programs perhaps very device > dependent. Whereas perl can be written on a tiny tiny screen, and can > withstand all kinds of users with various disabilities, etc.? > Also perl is easier to squeeze into makefiles.
My esteemed colleague does not agree. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/finding-easy-to-read-web-content_20.html Reposted with permission: """ As for programming in Python while not being able to see, I think it comes down to the tools you have to do it with. When in Grad School, all I had was a screenreader, and I stayed away from python because of the whitespace having semantics problem. However once i wrote emacspeak, and speech-enabled Barry Warsaw's python-mode, programming in python has always been a pleasure -- and the paucity of delimiters actually makes the code more speakable. """ n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list