On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:49:18 UTC, 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.

Excuse me? Once you were past the label and continuation columns,
whitespace was completely irrelevant to FORTRAN. (Hence the ambiguity
of DO 10 I = 1.10 vs DO10I=1,10 - One is the Fortran equivalent of
the C "float do10i = 1.10", the other is the equivalent of "for (i=1; i11;i++)".

I'm pretty sure there a English sentences which are ambiguous without
whitespace.