On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:49 -0600, John D Jones III wrote: > Quite personally, I would rather be set on fire than have to work with > Django OR PHP. Whitespace should never EVER be cause for a fatal error > in a web app, and both are guilty of this.
What are you talking about? If you're talking about about accidental whitespace in a require()'d file, that's trivial to avoid. You probably haven't used PHP much or you'd realize you don't have a leg to stand on. Nonetheless, I'll give it to you because PHP is a horrible language for other reasons. Django doesn't have an equivalent problem, so you must be talking about Python's use of whitespace instead of curly braces. In which case I'm going to have to point out you really don't know what you're talking about here either. I too was annoyed at first by significant whitespace, but kept using Python for other reasons. Give it a year and you'll realize significant whitespace is a great design choice. Reading someone else's Python code is easier than just about any other language. Sure, whitespace isn't the only or even primary reason, but it's part of the larger philosophy that makes Python so readable. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
