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by Daniel Berger.
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I normally avoid threads started by certain lunatics over on comp.lang.perl.misc, but today I decided to follow one just for kicks and, while the original post is the usual mix of trollish and strange (not to mention offtopic), some of the replies were insightful. The one that stood out to me was this one by Ken Tilton in which he comes to this rather harsh conclusion:
"But the key in the whole thread is simply that indentation will not scale. Nor will Python."
Could he be right? Could it be that syntactically significant whitespace is, in and of itself, a limiting factor when it comes to language design and trying to add new features, constructs, or features?
I have no idea, really, but I thought it was a rather provocative and interesting point. I mean, what if he's right? I guess only time will tell.
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