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Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
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Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:<bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>...
> Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> scribbled the following
> on comp.lang.c:
> > Larry Hazel wrote:
> >> Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> When I need a language that's easy to use and readable, I turn
> >>> directly to C.  Don't let me stop you, though.
> >> 
> >> C?  Easy to read?  You have got to be kidding.
>  
> > Compared to the other languages in this crosspost? Damn right it's easy to 
> > read! :-)
>  
> > I mean yes, okay, I know what you mean. Any sufficiently advanced IOCCC 
> > entry is indistinguishable from line noise. But not /all/ C programs are 
> > IOCCC entries!
> 
> I find C harder to read than Java, and easier to read than C++. I
> don't know about Ada, as I've never seen it. But C and C++ are a
> breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp. They look like
> C looked while I was still a BASIC programmer: a random jumble of
> punctuation marks.


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"