Larry Wall's comment on python...
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
shalehperry at attbi.com
Fri Sep 6 18:08:29 EDT 2002
On Friday 06 September 2002 15:06, mmaddox at hcsmail.com wrote:
>
> Having read Wall's comments on Slashdot, I think he is really just mildly
> complaining about ridiculously long page-widths in his editor, not really
> slashing Python seriously. He's just giving some props to his own baby at
> the expense of another. (He had to say something, right?) You must agree
> that Python can lead you to horizontal scrolling in your editor - the bane
> of user interface design.
>
that was the original poster's point. When you start side scrolling it is
time to refactor. I find that I write python in much the same physical style
as I wrote in C so this has always been how I approached coding. However not
everyone has.
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