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Steve Lamb grey at despair.dmiyu.org
Tue Oct 14 15:41:37 EDT 2003 
On 2003-10-14, Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
> During the recent, massive, painful Lisp-Python crossposting thread the 
> evils of Python's whitespace based indentation were once again brought 
> to light. Since Python' syntax is so incredibly brittle, and failure 
> prone, it's amazing that we don't have more editor support for our 
> feeble minds.
   
    Why, exactly, would we need more than << and >>?  

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