Larry Wall's comment on python...
laotseu
bdesth at nospam.free.fr
Fri Sep 6 21:39:39 EDT 2002
Rod Stephenson wrote:
> Slashdot has a list of questions posed to Larry Wall (perl). When
> asked his thoughts on other scripting languages, he makes the
> following observation about python
>
> "Python is cool to look at small bits of, but I think the "outline"
> syntax breaks down with larger chunks of code. I'm with Aristotle on
> the structure of discourse--a story should have a beginning, and
> middle, and an end. So should blocks"
>
> I'm not quite sure what he's trying to get at here - I guess that for
> a long heavily indented chunk of code, you could lose track of the
> overall structure, but I don't write code this way.
>
> Any comments?
def fun(args):
#BEGIN
if ceci or cela:
#BEGIN
do_this(with_that)
[snip a lot of code]
#END
#END
So what the problem with blocks ?
laotseu
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