Opportunity missed by Python ?

[Dominic Binks]

I believe Occam had a visual structure and was compiled.  In fact it was 
even more picky than Python in this respect IIRC.

On 11/14/2011 4:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, DevPlayer<devplayer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> What I don't get is, having seen Python's syntax with indentation
>> instead of open and closing puncuation and other -readability-
>> structures in Python's syntax, is if someone is going to invent any
>> new language, how could they NOT take Python's visual structures (read
>> as readability) and copy it, whether it be a compiled language,
>> explicidly typed checked or whatever underlying mechanism they want to
>> make that code executable.
>
> What I would say is: How could they NOT be aware of Python's visual
> structures. There are tradeoffs, and just because something works for
> one language doesn't mean it's right for every other. I doubt the Dart
> developers were unaware of Python's structural style, so the choice to
> not use such was most likely conscious. (It may have been as simple as
> "let's keep the syntax mostly JS-like, to make it easier for JS
> developers to grok" though, rather than a major language-design
> choice.)
>
> ChrisA


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