From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T01:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Michael Walter wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:41:45 +0900, Alexander Kellett
> <ruby-lists@lypanov.net> wrote:
>> reading this again. still shocked...
>> On Feb 14, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Navindra Umanee wrote:
>>> Besides, Python is a more restricted and syntactically uniform
>>> language.  Ruby is more flexible and expressive, but IMHO to really
>>> understand the code you have to know more CS concepts and have a
>>> deeper understanding of the syntax than some people like to admit.
>> python is confusing as hell. you try to explain why they have to
>> get the indent levels right on every line. people can't even deal
>> with the correctness of html (as is obvious given the shit on the web)
>> never mind python.
> FWIW, from my experience "people" have very few problems understanding
> indentation in Python.

its not about understanding. its about debugging and thusly 
incrementally.
unless python got a whole load better since 1.5.1 wrt whitespace 
problems,
then its still a joke of a language :)
Alex