This is an interesting post, it shows me that fitness plateau where design of Python syntax lives is really small, you can't design something just similar:
http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/03/indentation-sensitivity-post-mortem.html Living on a small fitness plateau isn't good, even if it's very high, because it's evolutionary unstable :-( Indentation-wise Haskell syntax seems one of the very few local maxima that is close enough to the little fitness plateau where Python is. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list