From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-09 10:26:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:11:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1076350263 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:11:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:11:03 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:18320 comp.lang.c:21431 comp.lang.java:2808 comp.lang.ada:5369 Date: 2004-02-09T13:11:55-05:00 List-Id: Y2KYZFR1 wrote: > Joona I Palaste wrote in message news:... >>Richard Heathfield scribbled the following >>on comp.lang.c: >>>Larry Hazel wrote: >>>>Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: ... > you have obviously never even seen a Python program, since it does not > use any punction marks. It ( and Lua ) are about as close to > executable pseudo-code as you can get. Python ( and Lua ) is > "comprehendable" by anyone that can read english for the most part. C > and C++ are not. > > Python enforces rules about formatting even, so everyones Python code > HAS to conform to the same formatting rules, thus contributing to even > more "readibility" IMHO, Python made a mistake there. Rather than dictate the input format, they should have accepted a variety of freeform input, but instead provided a pretty print capability to produce "conforming format". This way, the person/editor combination is not punished for doing things a bit different. I do believe that a uniform format is nice: but take freeform input, and produce the rigid format as output. Ie. let the machines do the work ;-) In the past, _some_ BASIC interpreters worked this way. It was forgiving about the format upon entry, but when you listed it, the format was converted from tokens back to ASCII in a uniform and consistent manner. Just my 0.02 worth in this now academic post ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk