Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'rantingrick': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'programming': 0.18; 'code': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.25; 'lee': 0.28; 'server': 0.29; 'sun,': 0.30; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'rules': 0.36; 'own,': 0.37; 'languages': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'created': 0.38; 'run': 0.39; 'header :Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'background': 0.40; 'bring': 0.62; 'took': 0.63; 'life': 0.64; 'cameron': 0.67; 'subject:have': 0.74; 'dennis': 0.77; 'subject:should': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won. Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:27:52 -0700 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <20110716235245.GA8685@cskk.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-11fa99b.dsl.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1310869688 news.xs4all.nl 23884 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53976 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:9668 On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:52:45 +1000, Cameron Simpson declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > On 16Jul2011 09:51, rantingrick trolled: > | a complete nut job. Programming languages MUST have rules or > | ambiguities will run a muck and bring the entire system crashing down. > > "Amuck" is one word you know... > Or the code took on a life of its own, and the ambiguities created a MUCK server in the background -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/