What does Python fix?

[Michael Hudson]

"Mark McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> writes:

> Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, but in the case of indentation, it only takes a little while to go
> from hating it to not seeing how one could live without it.  (That was the
> case with me.  I hated indentation at first and now I love it.)
> 
> As for Lisp's parentheses, I've never used Lisp, 

Well, in view of your preceding paragraph, why do you need to carry
on?

Cheers,
M.

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