> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:50:03 -0700 > From: James Thiele <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Introduction > To: Seattle Python Interest Group <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > I always have used indentation in languages using braces (C/Perl/C++/etc) > even though it's not required. Just makes code more readable. > > Indeed: it's been a while, but IIRC, K&R (the inventors of C and authors of what for a long time was THE text on it) _urged_ readers/prospective programmers to use indentation for readability, despite their purposeful design of the language to make it optional (allowed just a little too much freedom, perhaps, but then they were NeXT when FORTRAN, COBOL, etc. were already Microsoft and Apple, i.e., if they--or AT&T, as it were--wanted "market share," they couldn't start out by limiting people; of course, the primary motivation for this freedom, as we've already seen in this thread, was probably simplification of the compiler's parser).
DG
