What does Python fix?

[Arona Ndiaye]

Programming should be about using the best tool for a given task. People
that stop at indentation or parenthesis "are not devoted to programming".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kuchling" <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org>
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: What does Python fix?


> Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com> writes:
> > The notion that these LISP zealots can't wrap their
> > fantatical little minds around is the possibility that
> > large numbers of programmers, upon encountering LISP,
> > actually hate it. Or worse, use it for a while, and
> > then learn to hate it.
>
> I don't know; I think most programmers are simply far too conservative
> and too intolerant of superficial syntactical features.  Witness how
> much flak Python, an otherwise fairly conventional languages, takes
> for its one unconventional feature, indentation.  With this attitude,
> Lisp with its parenthesis-heavy syntax doesn't stand a chance, no
> matter how good or bad the language itself is.
>
> --amk                                                  (www.amk.ca)
>   "Do I have to order you, Doctor?"
>   "I wouldn't advise it."
>     -- The Brigadier and the Doctor, in "The Green Death"
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