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I'm curious... what rock have you been living under in the past 33 years since python was launched?

• SunlitCat 3y ago
  Let's see, I was living under the: - Amiga E - Assembler (on Amiga) - perl - tcl/tk - javascript - vbscript - java - vba - c - c++ - python rock. Granted at some of those rocks, I just took a quick peek (more like a glance), but a rock with whitespaces being important was, at that moment, new to me!
  • nottorp 3y ago
    Oh cmon, I can still write some z80 assembly from memory and remember the zx spectrum memory layout somewhat, but I check new programming languages now and then :)
    • SunlitCat 3y ago
      :) I just meant that for someone coming from a language(s) where different kinds of delimiters are used to denote function bodies, a language that puts such a huge emphasis on whitespace was kinda throwing me off to get an error message slapped at me even though I was replicating the example letter by letter (although, obviously, I missed the importance of whitespace).
      • nottorp 3y ago
        It's all fuzzy, but I'm sure I knew about the importance of whitespace in python long before I actually tried python. Even Raymond's article which was one of the first whined about it [1]. I definitely remember reading that one and thinking I have to check out that language later. [1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
        • SunlitCat 3y ago
          Thank you for the article. I have to put it on my "to read" pile! :)
          • nottorp 3y ago
            It's from 2000, python has grown up in the mean time and it has added complexity. Put a (small) grain of salt on Raymond's praise.