>>>>> "JS" == Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
....
JS> Python was designed with the thought that the average programmer spends
JS> *far* more time *reading* code than writing code.  So the intent of Python
JS> syntax is to make code that is easy to *read*, even if it takes a little bit
JS> more effort to write.  

Only it isn't more effort to write.  It's a lot less effort to write,
as well as to read.

JS> That extra effort will pay off the first time that
JS> you have to change something that you wrote more than a week ago.  Or have
JS> to work with someone *else's* code.  Python code is *much* easier to
JS> maintain than C or Perl.

-- 
Patricia J. Hawkins
Hawkins Internet Applications, LLC



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