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Re: Indentation with spaces
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Indentation with spaces |
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Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:57:05 +0200 |
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goncholden wrote:
> Python is garbage as far as I am concerned.
It doesn't look or feel cool like Lisp but development is
super-fast. I think an experienced Lisp programmer writes the
typical program in slightly more time than a Python
novice does.
It's the langauge itself, but also all the resources on the
web and everywhere else including source, Q&As, books, you
name it ... because of its popularity.
I think for these and other reasons it's better than shell
scripts (it's interactive, or can be) and it's much less of
a learning curve (and again faster development) compared to
Perl and other comparable languages for comparable
applications and use cases that I know of.
Lisp is cooler, looks better and might be more powerful in
terms of the language's expressiveness, other than those things
(which are important, no doubt) I think Python would win most
other Progralympic disciplines vs Lisp ... TBH!
> The designers thought it would be neat to give semantic
> meaning to whitespace. Why on earth would they give semantic
> meaning to something that cannot be seen? Who thought that
> was a good idea?
It makes the code uniform from person to person in a way that
makes sense (in one particular "sense", the enforced one, but
still) - there are advantages with this both reading, writing
and understanding - advantages related not the least to what
I just mentioned, Python's one killer advantage, the
development speed.
Trust me, I wrote a Python bot which is employed as we speak
working well and not crashing, and I did this very fast
knowing nothing about Python and even less about IRC. It just
happens with Python ... somehow.
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- Re: Indentation with spaces, (continued)
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/08
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Skip Montanaro, 2022/06/08
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/08
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/08
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/08
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/10
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Skip Montanaro, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Lele Gaifax, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces,
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- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/10
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Christopher Dimech, 2022/06/11
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/11
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Christopher Dimech, 2022/06/11
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, goncholden, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, tomas, 2022/06/09
- Re: Indentation with spaces, Emanuel Berg, 2022/06/10
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