From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <481B0A70.1050209@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3CB4093E-098C-4E6F-B843-7B65E4461D81@mac.com> <7359f0490805011852k64a52a01k1efc1e6aba8b030c@mail.gmail.com> <31D2A9A4-E6AD-4D66-AE2A-6168A3F09D9C@mac.com> <481A890F.3080004@gmail.com> <481B0A70.1050209@andrew.cmu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Arnold Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:07:25 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9dc1fef2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 02/05/2008, at 8:34 AM, 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. 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 d