Ben Finney wrote: > Readability doesn't vary directly or inversely with the number of > characters, even though it is affected when they change.
Good point! Perl has more characters than Python, and I find they make it harder to read because they are distracting. Brainf*** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainf***) only has 8 possible characters, and it's hard to read because you can't easily recognize repeating patterns or features. I think this is something that typographers have been studying for hundreds of years, how changing the shape of characters, page layout, and typographical conventions affect the ability to easily read and comprehend text. I know that in college I hated one physics textbook which used monospaced fonts... it was well-written but just hurt my eyes to browse through. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
