Hmm. If whitespace shouldn't be significant, it's presumably because you value some unusual use of whitespace.<div><br></div><div>But saying one should know how to format one's code is to imply that there's some obviously proper way to do it that one should know.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then why have braces, in that case, since the formatting already disambiguates the sybtax?<span></span><br><br>On Monday, July 2, 2012, Geoffrey Myers wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 07/01/2012 01:11 PM, Stephen Haywood wrote:<br>
> I have to second Python. Ruby is nice too but it has been so coopted by<br>
> the Rails people that it's hard to find good info that is not Rails<br>
> related. Python is excellent for system programming and has an easy<br>
> interface with C if you need it.<br>
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The thing I don't like about python, is the forced formatting.<br>
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If you don't format your code properly, you shouldn't be writing code.<br>
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