A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Tue Jan 15 04:05:37 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 11:43:58 UTC, David wrote:

>
> Stereotypes of people who never actually used it, other than 
> tried it
> and gave up because they didn't configure their editor 
> correctly and
> blaming python for it. I bet my last indentation error was more 
> than two
> years ago.

Not a stereotype, sorry to disappoint you, I have used Python 
quite a lot in my job (and still do). My point is, as soon as you 
have to use a specialized editor and configure the editor to 
format Python properly, there is something wrong, in my opinion. 
A language shouldn't depend on indentation. Indentation is just a 
means to an end (=readability) but not an end in itself. To make 
it part of the syntax is over the top, if not neurotic. Everyone 
in his or her right mind will use some kind of formatting anyway 
and avoid spaghetti code. No need to enforce it. It should be up 
to the programmer / team how to do this. But this is not a Python 
forum, and I am quite happy with the C-style D offers.



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