On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 04:56:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 06:42:57 QAston wrote:
On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, ixid wrote:
> Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though
> frankly the anti-groups opinions feel more like attachment to
> the status quo than something that's evidently and
> demonstrably
> superior.
I think that Python has syntax evidently and demonstrably
superior to D. Why not Python?
I think that that's very disputable. In general, which syntax
is better than
another syntax is very subjective. Personally, I hate Python's
syntax and find
it far harder to deal with than that of languages like C/C++ or
D. The lack of
braces alone is a huge annoyance for editing code (being able
to hop between
braces in an editor is invaluable for getting to the beginning
and end of
functions, scopes, classes, etc.), and it's easy enough to find
rants where
people have had bugs in their python code due to spacing issues
and how it
cost them hours to find them.
Yes. Some people prefer python's syntax, but I don't see how
anyone could
possibly claim that it was demonstratably superior. It's
primarily a
subjective issue, and from what I've seen, the objective
portions of the
argument are very much against python as having braces and
semicolons and the
like makes the code more explicit and therefore less prone to
scoping issues.
So while that tradeoff may very well be worth it for some
people, it's
certainly not an objective advantage for python's syntax.
- Jonathan M Davis
I agree, I was just playing games with ixid.
