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I like what a friend of mine who went from Ruby to Python said... "Python is easier to understand, harder to love." For me personally: * I like Rubygems & Bu

I like what a friend of mine who went from Ruby to Python said... "Python is easier to understand, harder to love." For me personally: * I like Rubygems & Bundler more than Pip * I find the split between Python 2.x and 3.x to be obnoxious * Python whitespace indentation bugs me a lot TL;DR -- Python isn't much different than Ruby in terms of what it can and cannot do. Personally, my new favorite language is Elixir, which does a whole bunch of stuff neither Ruby or Python does particularly well.

xkcd-sucks 10y ago
I hate whitespace indentation on principle (and practice of copypasting code written in a different editor). But after spending too much time trying to parse endless )})})}}} in JavaScript, the Python approach seems like a much better way of doing it. It seems like pure C programmers are pretty well behaved with their curly braces through. Any radically different blocking paradigms besides indentation and parenthesis-like things?
- BoysenberryPi 10y ago
  Lua and Ruby use the keyword "end" to signal the end of a function or loop. I much prefer that.
- stephenr 10y ago
  The same indentation Python uses in lieu of closing curly braces, can help your issue, so instead of: [].map(function (foo) {baz(bar(foo))}); You could write: [].map( function (foo) { baz( bar(foo) ) } ); Alternatively (or in addition to that), use a decent IDE, which will highlight matching parenthesis, curly braces, allow code folding, etc. I've never heard a builder say "I don't like screws, nails are better because they work better with my hammer".
- collyw 10y ago
  I disliked Pythons whitespace when I first started using it. Then after a while I went back to update a Perl script, moved some blocks of code around, then got the dreaded missing brace problem. Its worth it to eliminate that problem alone. Now the only problem I have with whitespace, is when I switch to other languages and forget a semicolon at the end of lines.

xkcd-sucks 10y ago

I hate whitespace indentation on principle (and practice of copypasting code written in a different editor). But after spending too much time trying to parse endless )})})}}} in JavaScript, the Python approach seems like a much better way of doing it. It seems like pure C programmers are pretty well behaved with their curly braces through. Any radically different blocking paradigms besides indentation and parenthesis-like things?

BoysenberryPi 10y ago
Lua and Ruby use the keyword "end" to signal the end of a function or loop. I much prefer that.
stephenr 10y ago
The same indentation Python uses in lieu of closing curly braces, can help your issue, so instead of: [].map(function (foo) {baz(bar(foo))}); You could write: [].map( function (foo) { baz( bar(foo) ) } ); Alternatively (or in addition to that), use a decent IDE, which will highlight matching parenthesis, curly braces, allow code folding, etc. I've never heard a builder say "I don't like screws, nails are better because they work better with my hammer".
collyw 10y ago
I disliked Pythons whitespace when I first started using it. Then after a while I went back to update a Perl script, moved some blocks of code around, then got the dreaded missing brace problem. Its worth it to eliminate that problem alone. Now the only problem I have with whitespace, is when I switch to other languages and forget a semicolon at the end of lines.