On 09/20/17 04:42, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Straying OT ... > >>> On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote: >>>> Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. >>> >>> It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and >>> I for one call python "sneaky snake" just because of that ;-), as about >> >> <snip> >> Yeah, in addition to my reaction to "you're using *whitespace* as a syntax >> element?!", I had an early dislike of python, when each new sub-release >> broke things that had worked in the previous. >> > +1 > > As a sysadmin/programmer I really detest using indents to denote > lexical level. But when I have ever expressed such opinions I am > invariably shouted down and told that it makes programming easier and > I'm just an elitist nerd. And don't get me started on the incompatible > point releases. > That's not to say I don't indent ALL THE TIME, it certainly makes it far easier to read - don't let me get started about any HTML editor/word processor, that left justifies *completely* - but that it's a syntactic element, equivalent to semicolon in most other languages, disturbs me. Enforcing good style by compiler... mark