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Python *shudder* (Score:1)
There are a couple of real issues with indentation, but mostly in Python's favor.
Indentation without line noise is a major convenience for those typing with their voice or quite possibly other adaptive technologies.
Indentation without line-noise lacks the redundancy that braces and a "tidy" reformatter can provide, but gets a similar effect directly. Editors that have been trained to match brackets may have a harder time skipping back to
Bill
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use Sig;
Re:Python *shudder* (Score:2)
Not these eyes, alas. It was messing me up bigtime when I closed a bunch of blocks at once (if in a loop in a loop). No doubt I'll get used to it, but don't make the mistake of confusing familiar for intuitive. Nothing about these infernal machines is actually intuitive, and eyes can no doubt learn to see the invisible indents the same way that fingers can learn to hit the match-curly key sequence.
Most tellingly, the Ubuntu team feels the simpler visually obv
Re:Python *shudder* (Score:1)
But new users aren't all equally successful in what they are trying to do. Moreso, they don't even know how to judge their success; they don't have a good feeling for how hard a problem really is, or for the quality of the thing they produce. Which is just to say that self-evaluation is not a good way to judge.
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