On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:40:02AM +0900, J Haas wrote:
> Greetings, folks. First time poster

Last time I read ruby-talk@ via spambox was the tail of a similar
thread -- first-time poster wondering about python-like
whitespace semantics in Ruby, although *somewhat* less eager
to do his homework IIRC :-)

> But I digress... the purpose of this post is to talk about one
> of the relatively few areas where I think Python beats Ruby,
> and that's syntatically- significant indentation.

Well, guess you knew [most of] the answers in advance...

I for one do avoid Python for several reasons (thoroughly
as a sorta-developer and somewhat less so as a packager
for ALT Linux distribution).

Number one of them is immaturity of upstream management
(at least relatively to the popularity; think PHP).

Number two is that it's not up to people to use machines to push
their image of taste down someone else's throat.

And if I'd *have* to choose between Guido's one and Matz's style
of educating people with development tools, I'd still land here.

Fortunately we do have choice, and there are other languages
borrowing from both Python and Ruby as well.

Regarding "not DRY", but is it better to be dry?  Sometimes it's
just time to stop, think a bit and write: "end".  And continue. :)

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