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From: Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
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Chad Dougherty wrote:
> 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.

Gosh and I thought being blind was a pre-requisite for programming in
Python.  Thanks for clearing that up.