I personally like indentation. I just wonder whether it is an issue that some people will dislike.
But anyway, I updated the language comparison to remove this critique. Kind regards, Samuel On 4/05/2010, at 9:22 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > André wrote: >> To Samuel Williams: (and other interested ;-) >> >> If you want to consider Python in education, I would encourage you >> have a look at http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ >> >> I think you will find that there are quite a few resources available - >> perhaps more than you are aware of. >> >> And, I don't think that because "some people do not like the >> indentation strategy" is a valid reason not to consider that Python's >> syntax is concise and simple. Actually, I would almost argue for the >> contrary. Indentation indicate programming structure/logic very >> clearly, without the need for arbitrary keywords and other punctuation >> symbols. There are very few keywords in the language. >> >> You indicate that Python programs are readable. They are also known >> to be short (much shorter than some other languages). >> André >> > Python indentation has been already discussed many times around, I remember > someone saying something like "How is it possible not to like indentation > while any decent programmer will use it no matter the language, including all > those which feature statements/keywords for blocks". > > JM > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
