On 23 Dec 2005 10:01:37 -0800, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It just seems that > Python developers think the whitespace thing is only an issue for > newbies. I think that many experienced users don't learn to like it, > but instead just learn to live with it.
I disagree, I don't think you can be an experienced python programmer and not be comfortable with its syntax. On the other hand you *can* be an experienced programmer, but that's not the same thing. I don't care how much code you've written in Python, if your not comfortable with the syntax then you clearly don't use it with enough consistency to bring yourself to that point where you "own" it. There's nothing wrong with that, for whatever reason, maybe Python isn't for you.. but certainly don't blame it on something as small as significant indention, because we've all been there and its just not that hard to make the change. There are quite a few good high-level languages out there these days. This may be out of place, but I'd suggest checking out Ruby if you want something as powerful and "fun" to code in as Python but with more Perl-like syntax. It doesn't quite have as much of a diverse module selection as Python and Perl but that will change with time. Open source gives us an unprecendented amount of choices, try them all out.. I have, and I came up with Python because for me it is the "best fit." That may not be true in your case, which is perfectly fine. -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
