Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ? Date: 12 Nov 2025 19:41:48 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <10eqid5$3du22$1@dont-email.me> <10f0f7i$12iu1$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pz9enTUSUbKStCPO165UnARrtQbWejww8uV3cvgp+ebRo9lxjc Cancel-Lock: sha1:DbTrNJdu/tT6mTRve47aAn2qdtI= sha256:1mYWzviuQ3LcernN0bQfVqm4KDVJwHHbXwUpNcQW9v0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77416 On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:24:47 -0500, c186282 wrote: > On 11/11/25 18:01, Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2025-11-11, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:51:30 -0500, c186282 wrote: >>> >>>> Remember when LISP, then PROLOG, were "The Future Of Everything" >>>> ? >>> >>> As I've said I worked my way through the Wizard book one winter out of >>> curiosity. Scheme was interesting but I was left wondering why anyone >>> would do things that way. The parens obsured the algos. >> >> I could say something about M-expressions, but I guess these will end >> up having the same-ish amount of parens, just differently-shaped and >> -placed. >> >> (I don't see an issue with parens, personally; subjectively I see more >> of an issue in Python's reliance on whitespace.) > > > Well, it's a MINOR reliance on whitespace. Just mind yer indents and > you're fine. There's nothing MINOR about it. 5 spaces instead of 6? Ain't gonna work. Tabs and spaces mixed? Boy howdy, you're screwed.