Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
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On 16 Feb 2026, at 23:29, Greg Menke (as gregm32768 at comcast dot net) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still don't get it, not trying to be difficult I just don't understand how python is not fragile. There are billions of lines of Python and a vast number of Python programmers who pick it up often very easily. The people who complain about the indentation-based syntax always have two things in common: they have used one or more other programming languages which have syntaxes which are not indentation-based and they have written little or no Python. There is a clue there. There are other clues which you can find by looking at any table of contents in a written book. I am sure if you look at my usenet history you will find posts by me as one of those people. I should have listened to the data which, even then, would have told me that I was wrong. Today the data is simply overwhelming: believing that indentation-based syntax is a problem is like believing that stars do not fuse hydrogen. They do, it works, I was wrong and you are wrong and there is a vast amount of evidence for that. There are so many things wrong with Python which are real: arguing for or against this silly and very obviously false claim is just a waste of time and I won't do it any more. --tim _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html