From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <481B0A70.1050209@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:34:56 -0400 From: Chad Dougherty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <3CB4093E-098C-4E6F-B843-7B65E4461D81@mac.com> <7359f0490805011852k64a52a01k1efc1e6aba8b030c@mail.gmail.com> <31D2A9A4-E6AD-4D66-AE2A-6168A3F09D9C@mac.com> <481A890F.3080004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <481A890F.3080004@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d4887f2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Robert William Fuller wrote: > I don't use Python for this very reason. This is probably why Ruby > exists. I will not use your language for the same reason. By adopting > such draconian white space rules you automatically alienate a large > number of programmers. > A blind programmer once told me that Python's whitespace block structure was simply too high of a barrier for him to use it. -Chad