On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:17:50AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0100, ropers wrote:
> > 2009/12/19 Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd@bsws.de>:
> > > any excuse to not know python is a good and valid one. any.
> > 
> > If you have the time, I'd love to hear you elaborate. So far most
> > people whose opinion I value have only said good things about Python.
> > You're the first person whose opinion I respect to go against that.
> 
> You just need to talk to more people, then. Lots of people don't like
> Python. Same for Perl, Ruby, or anything else. I've heard several devs
> say they don't like Python but I have yet to hear any of them actually
> give a reason. Ask them why they don't like C++ and you get a big list
> of everything that's wrong with it. Ask about Python and you get "it
> sucks" or "it's awful" or something. So I think it's just a matter of
> taste.
> 
> Or maybe Henning has actual reasons. I haven't heard him talk about
> Python before so I don't know. Henning?
> 

Ugh, a programming language where you can't copy paste from xterm to xterm
without fucking up the program is just way to much pain to work on.
The indenting of code is an optical help but should not change the
behaviour of the program. For me it is important to be able to write code
with style(9) in mind (and I think most other BSD developpers think
similar because our code all looks similar).

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:wq Claudio