Teaching Programming

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/4/2010 8:46 AM, superpollo wrote:

> but i do not think i can use it myself, since my template system wants
> the input to generate the code to stay on a single line ( don't ask :-( )

I think we can agree that Python (unlike C, for instance) is not good 
for writing non-humanly-readable one-unbounded-length-line code. That is 
contrary to its design goal. But I would think that you would have 
similar problems with other manditorily multiline languages, like 
Fortran and Basic.

Terry Jan Reedy