Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 24-Jan-06, at 2:39 PM, Boyko Bantchev wrote:

> I see no
> problem with indentation itself in make or in any other language.
> Indentation does _no_ harm.  The use of tabs does.

It significantly complicates code generation. One of the nice things 
about Lua is that it is really easy to generate Lua source code.

(Of course, there are ways to generate properly indented Python, and I 
know how to do it -- the point is that it's *easier* in Lua.)