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OT - Programming Languages
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Adam Funk
wrote:
On 2015-02-01,
wrote:
Martin Bonner wrote:
I find Python easy to read and write, and (more to the point) my son
found it fairly easy to pick up at 16.
[...]
I also dislike python, although it has its uses (and a wide variety of
special purpose libraries). However, in case you consider it a useful
piece of information, note that the Physics dept at Imperial College
teaches python in first year physics.
The significance of whitespace still bugs me, ...
Whitespace should *not* be significant; there are no other contexts in
life in which it is. This idea is just a throwback to the days of
FORTRAN.
There is another language where whitespace is significant; OCCAM...
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