Thus spake Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:48 -0500 > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm also very reluctant to learn Python because I'm very adamant > > in how I use whitespace. Though I will need to pick it up sooner later. > > As well as Ruby and probably PHP as well. You can never know too many > > languages after all. :) > > That was one of two points that really stuck in my craw about Python. But > ya know what? 2+ years later and now I go back to Perl code or poke through C > code and I just find it nasty to paw through. And writing either of those, > oy, don't even get me started. It's definitely something to get used to and > the more used to doing things with block delimiters the more friction there is > to doing it any other way. But I'd not go back and I wish other languages > would take the same path.
I agree 100%, although it was my encounter with Miranda c1986 that first prompted the "I'll indent how I like" reaction. But you are right, having to indent properly produces much cleaner-looking and easier to maintain code. And I really appreciate the latter after having spent several hours on afternoon about 15 years ago trying to find a bug in a C program (not written by me), and missing it because poor and inconsistent indentation by the original author made me misread the code. After I found the bug the next task I set myself,, before doing anything else, was to indent his code properly. All went much better after that. I also think that enforced indentation is a very good thing in a language used to teach programming - one of the things that makes python so good for that, in fact. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
