Python Rocks!

[Jim Richardson]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:50:55 -0800, 
 tye4, in the persona of <tye4 at yahoo.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>
>Tom Culliton <culliton at clark.net> wrote in message
>news:YZRg4.1292$Ve7.28796 at iad-read.news.verio.net...
>> In article <860ftk$bas at news.or.intel.com>, tye4 <tye4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Have you got extensive experience at designing and implementing
>> computer lanaguages like Guido?  Did you spend years working on a
>> major language design/development project (ABC) including lots of
>> usability studies like Guido?  Have you had the benefit of Tim Peters,
>> a veritable font of language implementation experience and good taste,
>> whispering (or occasionally shouting) in your ear?  I rather doubt it.
>>
>Are you insinuating that this is not a problem since I'm not as experienced
>as Guido? I don't need to design a language to detect flaws in it.
>This problem needs to be fixed. That's because indentation is
>highly dependent on what text editor you use. Some editors convert
>tabs to spaces some don't. Only way around that would be not use
>tabs... which is quite ridiculous (I don't want to type 4 spaces for every
>line.)
>Besides, some editors auto-indent which is a very nice feature.. but one
>that might cause problems with Python.

well, for me, I use vim, and :set tabstop=4 works just jimdandy
(yes, vim also auto indents nicely thank you.)

Frankly, I have grown to prefer the whitespace syntactic style. 

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>> Part of the reason that Python is so clean and elegant is because
>> Guido, with that background, discarded everything that didn't improve
>> clarity, conprehensibility, and ease of learning, and only kept things
>> that helped.
>
>Python is clean and elegant.. yes but it could me much better.
>Unfortunately, it's hard to change basic syntax of a language.
>
>-tye4
>
>

The source is there, you are free to make any changes you see
fit, and others are free to adapt them if they wish. I'll keep
whitespace myself though thank-you-very-much.

-- 
Jim Richardson
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