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On Sunday 26 September 2010 08:13:32 Philipp =DCberbacher wrote:

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> Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-25 13:00:29 +0200:

> > On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote:

> > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth  wrote:

> > > > I guess I am reacting to what I imagine is language

> > > > preference projected onto absolute judgment on merits of a

> > > > particular language.

> > > >=20

> > > > Perhaps you are speaking from years of software development

> > > > experience.

> > >=20

> > > I have quite a lot of (mostly enjoyable) experience writing Perl over

> > > the years, including some fairly big programs, and hardly any

> > > experience with Python (a language I dislike on instinct).  But my

> > > experience with Perl has been that returning to my own projects is

> > > harder than it should be, and harder than in languages like C and C++.

> > >=20

> > >  That is probably due to my own limitations, particularly when it

> > >=20

> > > comes to discipline, but it's empirically true in my case.

> > >=20

> > > The real assumption I made back there was that Python code is any

> > > easier to return to -- I haven't the experience to judge, really, I'm

> > > just going on hearsay from friends and acquaintances.

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> > Python actually forces you to be more disciplined. Which really make

> > returning to the code easy.

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> Isn't this only about indentation? Indentation might be important for

> readability, but whether it's forced by the language or not doesn't seem

> to be such a big deal for me.

Don't underestimate that!
Write some non-trivial code, let it rest for 2 months (where you focus on=20

other things) and come back to your code. If you where displined to documen=

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lot, python makes it easier for you to come back to your code than other=20

languages I know (C, C++, javascript, basic, pascal, fortran, LabView, heck=

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even simplier than pd I think).
With python it seems to be "only" intendation, but this results in clearer=

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structures of code and less parenthesis. Which results in a much higher=20

readability. Sure, you can write readable code in other languages too. But =

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many people do you know that write readable code (in non-python) when the=20

projects deadline is only two weeks away?
And pythons inbuilt documentation-system saves you another three days of th=

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deadline...
Have fun,
Arnold
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