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Whitespace as syntax (was Re: Python Rocks!)

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Tue Feb 8 20:35:02 EST 2000 
Garrett G. Hodgson <garry at sage.att.com> wrote:

> fcahoon at my-deja.com wrote:
> > 
> > In article <1e5nkk6.1a5z8bp1lixbdvN%bparsia at email.unc.edu>,
> >   bparsia at email.unc.edu (Bijan Parsia) wrote:
> > > I think, notwithstanding your experience with C (though why that
> > should
> > > be applicable to Python...), *you* have a riddle to answer: There is a
> > > *lot* of Python code out there. The standard distribution contains
> > loads
> > > of modules from many different sources. You *yourself* indicate that
> > > Python is becoming common place....
> > 
> > The popularity of a language cannot be taken as prima facie evidence of
> > its technical superiority.
> 
> he didn't say it was.  what he said was, lots of code has been
> written, and empirical evidence suggests that your fears are
> unfounded.

Yes. Thanks!

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.
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