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<br><div><div>On Sep 19, 2007, at 15:36 , Minsloc Tarren wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">*1) i really liked ruby in that matter, and i would never use python because only idiot - sorry, Guido - would use whitespace in other way than as word-separator. I'm willing to accept any sensible community standard for indentation, but this is whitespace fascism ;-).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>if you wanna have some fun :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-January/183048.html">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-January/183048.html<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>(third thing on goole under python tab), and exactly why i never tried python - not even when they started hyping about django.</span></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Please don't take someone's annoyance with an aspect of this language to start a flamewar about another.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In this case, people who use erlang a lot aren't terribly bothered by treating ; and , as separators. The question is whether it's a barrier to entry, and how big of a barrier it is.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In python's case, the only people who complain about whitespace are people who haven't used it (although they usually don't go as far as to call the creator an idiot on a completely unrelated list).<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Dustin Sallings</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>