Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-require-python
> 
>   Python must have the most idiotic block delimiter in the history of
> programming languages: Whitespace indentation.
> 
>   Why is it idiotic? Because whitespace is the one thing which gets most
> easily and regularly lost in communication.
> 
>   For example, someone might ask some question about Python in a forum or
> blog post, and then someone might answer it with some Python code... and
> the blog/forum software removes whitespaces from the beginning of lines,
> completely changing the meaning of the program and making it inoperable.
> There are also many other situations where whitespaces at the beginning
> of lines might not be preserved (or might be changed somehow).
> 
>   Also autoindentation of Python code is a physical impossibility.
> 
>   The person who thought that it's a good idea to have indentation as
> block delimiters should be shot.
> 

So you are saying that the programming language is no good unless it 
allows production code to be floated around on blogs?

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