I am going to take your advice and spend more time with Python.
My initial reaction was that the terminator was an absolute requirement.=20
After looking through the code that others write I see that since proper=20
indentation is a requirement. That assures that the listings are=20
readable code. I normally shy away from "overfeatured" software. That=20
is, software that has way more features than I need. Python seems to=20
have an infinite number of ways of doing anything. I will find my subset=20
and ignore the excess. My programming tasks are neither lengthy or=20
complicated.

On 4/9/2014 4:24 PM, veegee wrote:
> I absolutely love every single thing about Python (version 3.4 onwards).
> One of the things I try to do before choosing a programming language and
> environment for any project is try to find negative things about the
> platform, anything I can hate on really. For Python, I can't find a singl=
e
> thing. The best I could do was come up with the fact that it's slow
> (compared to C/Java). But then with C++ (boost::python), it's so
> ridiculously easy to write your own Python module. Also the fact that the=
re
> are things like Cython that let you write code in a Python subset with
> static types and compiles to C is just wonderful. It actually produced
> slightly faster than my pure C code.
>
> The one thing Python is not suitable for is microcontrollers. One greatly
> benefits from the ability to manually manage memory and I/O from C. Also,
> dynamic/duck typing is counter-productive for microcontrollers, I find.
>   But for everything else, Python is wonderful.
>
> Also LOVE the fact that indentation is part of the language. It makes
> everything look clean and professional. After writing 10,000 lines for a
> project in Python last month, the clean syntax is something I can really
> appreciate.
>
> About the line termination that someone brought up: it's a non-issue. The
> documentation specifies exactly how lines are treated. The great thing
> about Python is that there's a "correct" way to do it. You're either doin=
g
> it right, or you need to revise your style. There's no ambiguity anywhere=
..
> There's only one way to implement something in Python. And you can be sur=
e
> that it's the right way (as opposed to Ruby, for example).

--=20
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"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the
deaf can hear." - Mark Twain


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