From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190805031632k1b6d5f50l7e44a9f13dabe7f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 09:32:37 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e028152-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ratpie! tasty. i thought a pindent was what a pinhead gets when you scone him with a frypan. brucee On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > my original suggestion for ratpy wasn't taken seriously, so i'll propose it again: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/29eb245edcb78e91 > > >>> 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. > > > > straying off-topic, but ... > > > > the Python distribution includes a tool called 'pindent'. it happily > > annotates Python source with block-closing comments and converts > > haphazardly indented source with block-closing comments into > > correctly indented Python source. > > > > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py > > >