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  3. June 2010

Re: IF

Hm. I have always loathed zero-based indexes, because they force humans to think the way computers work. White space as control structures OTOH is exactly the other way round. Makes much more sense to me.

Joep Beckeringh


Op 04-06-10 03:17, Joe Pluta schreef:
David Gibbs wrote:
On 6/3/2010 12:41 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

It's quite easy to write unreadable code in all languages.

True, but I don't see developers that use other languages arguing it's
a good idea. (Except for maybe the Perl people ;)

And python people ... who tend to argue about against writing clear code (i.e., white space as control structures).


Agh. The silliest programming syntax ever conceived. Except maybe
zero-based array indexes.<grin>

Joe


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