Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Ben Sunshine-Hill <sneftel@...>]

On 1/24/06, Lisa Parratt <lisa@thecommune.org.uk> wrote:
> Personally, I'm of the opinion that in real world usage, the white space
> issue is enough to kill the languages utility stone dead, let alone the
> other flaws it and it's creators glaringly contain.

This seems to be the opinion of virtually everyone I know who doesn't
want to use Python. It was certainly my opinion before I started using
Python in a serious manner. Now that I do, it seems a rather
superficial argument, like disliking Lua because its syntax isn't
"C-like".