On 9 Oct 2008, at 11:12 am, Paul Makepeace wrote:
As an anecdotal single data point.. I've been programming Perl as my main language since '94 and within 2yrs of exposure to python I'd say _purely from an aesthetic point of view_ I prefer reading python. In other words despite having 10+yrs to get used to perl, python's appearance seems more pleasant to me. I really think it's struck a good balance of expressiveness and language-naturalness in terms of appearance. (FWIW, PHP's seems like a huge mess, visually.) P
Personally, I think Haskell has a very pleasant, uncluttered syntax. I just wish I could do something practical with it! :)
Iain
