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On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:47:33 +0300, "Octavian Rasnita"
<orasnita@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Perl doesn't force anyone to indent the code, don't force the programmer to define a hash element before using it, allow the programmer to interpret the variables in strings directly. These things should be not used always, but if in some cases if the programmer wants to use them, he can use them with no problems. And this means flexibility.

	FORTRAN, Pascal, and Ada don't require indentation either -- but
other than my first year F-IV class(1976 -- we were limited to Hollerith
cards, and checking out drums to add tabbing columns was too painful to
use), once access to the Hazeltine terminals was permitted we always
used indentation to illustrate the logic. Since indentation seems so
crucial to easy comprehension of the logical structure of a program,
making it a mandatory syntactical structure becomes a desirable feature
for code that must be maintained (by others, in many cases).

	As for the dictionary from list... Do not confuse /algorithms/
selected by the programmer from what is part of the native language.
Otherwise one could complain that there is more than one way to code a
spam-filter using Python...
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