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From: "John Barham" <jbarham@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
Date: Thu,  1 May 2008 21:39:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f34febc0805012139h64d04e8ck37eda05522802906@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490805011852k64a52a01k1efc1e6aba8b030c@mail.gmail.com>

Rob Pike wrote:

>  I have lots of other examples of lesser disasters. As code grows,
>  white space indentation becomes ever more problematic. It's a
>  maintenance disaster.

I beg to differ, at least when it comes to my experience working w/
Python.  I work day in and day out on a 50,000+ line Python
application and can't recall a single bug that was caused by
whitespace indentation.  But granted Python is better hand-written
than generated...

Working on a constantly moving code-base I've experienced more
problems due to Python's dynamic typing, but that's a double-edged
sword and on balance it's still a big plus.

  John



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02  1:23 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:26 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  2:21   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  2:34     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-07  9:24   ` Matt Erickson
2008-05-08  2:22     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-11 23:04       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:52 ` Rob Pike
2008-05-02  1:12   ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-05-02  2:22     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  1:53   ` Rob Pike
2008-05-02  2:19   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-02  3:22     ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-02 12:34       ` Chad Dougherty
2008-05-02 14:43         ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-03 14:07         ` David Arnold
2008-05-03 15:47           ` lucio
2008-05-03 23:28           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-05-03 23:32             ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-03 23:50               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04  2:43               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-04  5:16                 ` Steve Simon
2008-05-04  5:42                 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-04  7:42                   ` John Stalker
2008-05-04  7:48                     ` Steve Simon
2008-05-04  7:57                     ` lucio
2008-05-04 12:18                       ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-04 13:48                         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04 15:03                           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-05  1:45                             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-05  2:24                               ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-05-05  3:58                                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-05 10:16                                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-05  4:32                               ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-02  4:25     ` ron minnich
2008-05-02  4:41       ` John Barham
2008-05-02  4:54         ` ron minnich
2008-05-02  5:01           ` John Barham
2008-05-02  4:39   ` John Barham [this message]
2008-05-02  5:07   ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-05-02 12:12     ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  5:07 ` John Barham
2008-05-02 12:07   ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02  7:49 ` John Stalker
2008-05-02  8:42   ` Bakul Shah
2008-05-02  9:24     ` Martin Neubauer

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