Python is readable

[Lie Ryan]

On 03/18/2012 12:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:59:34 +0100, Kiuhnm wrote:
> In the second example, most English speakers would intuit that "print(i)"
> prints i, whatever i is.

There are two points where the code may be misunderstood, a beginner may 
think that "print i" prints to the inkjet printer (I remembered 
unplugging my printer when I wrote my first BASIC program for this 
reason); and the possible confusion of whether "print i" prints the 
letter "i" or the content of variable "i". (Fortunately, this confusion 
are easily resolved when I run the code and see the result on-screen 
instead of a job on the print spooler)

(ironically, although print is nowadays a programming jargon for 
outputting to screen, but in the old dark ages, people used to use the 
"print" statement to print to paper in their old terminal)