On Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:37:54 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Johannes Bauer : > > > > I don't know why anyone would force a display issue onto everyone. > > > Well, if I have to work with your code, you are forcing your style on > me. > > > > It imples the arrogant stance that every human being has the exact way > > of reading and writing code. Everyone can configure her editor to what > > she wants (including line breaks and such). > > > That's a good point: why aren't we just exchanging AST's and configuring > the editor to display them in our preferred format? > > Well, we're not there yet.
Yes, regarding programmers using plain-text instead of hypertext at http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/html-is-why-mess-in-programming-syntax.html I wrote: And yet programmers continue to be decades behind all other users of computers. We continue to use flat text for our programs when all others have moved on. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
