On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the long-time jokes in Python is that it has all the
> block-delimiting styles already.
>
> for elm in lis: # {
> print elm
> # }
>
Cute, but I'm not sure how this version of the One True Bracing Style works
for the Python else statement.
>
> for elm in lis:
> # BEGIN
> print elm
> # END
>
>
> Goldsmith is right that C was an innovation in its time. C was written in
> order to write Unix. The concept of agile languages didn't exist: people
> were looking more for something that could be clearly mapped to assembly
> language. Just having functions rather than GOTO's was a big deal.
>
> --
> Mike Orr <[email protected]>
>
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