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Python was my first language and the white space rules simply "made sense" for me at the time. In fact, using Python for a while at such an early stage started
by joshes 16y ago
Python was my first language and the white space rules simply "made sense" for me at the time. In fact, using Python for a while at such an early stage started to ingrain a oneness with Python's unique syntactic idiosyncrasies. It seems somewhat second nature at this point.
- tjr 16y agoThanks for sharing! It makes sense that significant white space would only seem odd if the habit of insignificant white space had already been acquired.
- hsmyers 16y agoHaving in the long ago gotten used to Fortran on punch cards, Python wasn't that much of a reach and as it solves a particularly annoying problem (code formatting) I didn't have that much of a problem of getting on board with it. On other projects in other environments I typically run all code through a formatter and accomplish a similar goal. Regards first language? I really don't think it matters just so long as there is a second language to come...