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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