On 03/02/15 13:49, 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.

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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.

I was in tears of frustration after keying on my first z80 assembler
program EXACTLY as the sample was p[resented in the manual. Yea, even
unto the single leading space on every line that the typesetter had
added to make it look 'nice'.....




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