From: baalbek <rcs@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T11:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:22 pm, Steffen Mutter wrote:
> 
>>Am Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:54:12 -0800 schrieb Tolga:
>>
>>>One or two weeks ago, I tried Python and loved it.
>>
>>What exactly did make you feel happy?
> 
> 
> What makes me happy about Python is subordination by indentation. 
> Remember my thread on end matching, and how complex the answers 
> became (one responder suggested getting a Ruby parser to do the 
> job). That all becomes moot via subordination by indentation.
> 
> If I screw up the indentation, I get either a syntax error or  *very 
> obvious* runtime error.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
> http://www.troubleshooters.com
> slitt@troubleshooters.com
> 
> 

Sorry, but the indentation feature of Python (along with the mandatory 
prefix self of every class method) is one of the worst design decisions 
made by a language designer, and is what turned me away from Python to Ruby.

That said, if there weren't a Ruby, I would still be a Pythonista!

Baalbek