Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

We have two ratpies. They're ruby and perl. Pick your poison.

On May 3, 2008, at 7:32 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> 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
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