On 5 Aug, 16:08, Brett Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 4, 3:43 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A page of Python code looks *clean*, with not a lot of > > punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines
> My first impression of Python was that it was visually hard to parse. <snip>> > Put another way, imagine math went from: > 2 + 2 = 4 > to: > two plus two equals four > and then someone decided to abbreviate: > two pl two eq four That looks more like tcl than python to me. My first reaction to python was a strong dislike of indentation as a block delimeter and the convention of using '__*__' names. I got over my issue with indentation fairly quickly, but still don't care for the excessive underscores. However, overall I thought it was extremely clean and easy to write. By the time I saw Python, I had already essentially given up on Perl, but it only took 20 minutes going through the tutorial to completely nail down the lid on the coffin of my Perl self. To summarize the first impression: clean, simple, powerful, and a lot of potential. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list