On 5/4/2010 1:44 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 04 May 2010 12:06:10 -0400, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
Speak for yourself, please. For two decades before I met Python, I
indented code nicely whenever it was allowed. That option was one of the
great advancements of Fortran77 over FortranIV. Coming from C, I was
immediately glad to be done with those darn braces.
What kept you from indenting FORTRAN-IV?
There was a several year gap with learning of 'structured programming'
in between. Perhaps ignorance of both the possibility (no one did it,
that I know of) and desirability. Glass screens made consistent
indentation a lot easier that with cards and teletypes. The new
structured block constructs made indentation more useful, too.
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