On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 22:49, Dom Grigonis <dom.grigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 3. The Python syntax is easily understandable to anyone who knows English as > it follows English syntax: "What are you doing tonight?" "I'm going to the > movies, if I manage to leave work on time, otherwise I'll just stay home.” > * Is the english sentence “If I manage to leave work on time, I’m going to > the movies, otherwise, I’ll just stay home” incorrect?
This is a VERY common objection to Python's syntax. No, the English sentence you provide isn't wrong, and the "follows English syntax" argument is not saying that C's way of laying it out is wrong. English happily supports both orders. But that's a relatively weak justification, since this is the same English that has a purple fruit called a "grape", and then a completely different fruit in a different family called a "grapefruit"; and where there's no well-accepted word for "the day after tomorrow", but after some incidents in Prague, came up with the glorious word "defenestration", which can also refer to shutting down your GUI and returning to terminal mode. So I would say this is only really of value as a rebuttal to "Python's conditional syntax makes no sense", by saying "yeah well, it's no worse than English". Which is kinda like saying "banging your head against a wall doesn't hurt **that** much, it's not as bad as maintaining a PHP web site.". ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/72VRUQKNWFLCL4KJFBIXYFT2DCX57PNY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
