From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <775b8d190805031632k1b6d5f50l7e44a9f13dabe7f6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:50:40 -0400 References: <775b8d190805031632k1b6d5f50l7e44a9f13dabe7f6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e213c78-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 >> >> >> >