From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:05:18 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada: A beginners experience Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:05:19 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <1d3743b1-1a36-429d-92c7-9ae0e7c16e63@googlegroups.com> <87fu0m7ak0.fsf@nightsong.com> <6febe5d6-0339-4da5-afe5-9af4e2255597@googlegroups.com> <87muutddsc.fsf@nightsong.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-3hTF35Q0B/MNhDjNQ0IxQ3cqWsZ6YR05/Ts7HjIp0aamn/zzYzPGWdaLdC/ZDhrywPzaHAtNSUwNgF5!vexxKj1m1Qxo/G3yP/zZkyGSQP/Db9l00AwC5W6mNhwB2rldvHTaZ7YG2LTYx3s1QHwXcdsy X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2264 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53819 Date: 2018-07-14T15:05:19-04:00 List-Id: On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:01:20 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" declaimed the following: >While Python code is incredibly ugly and impossible to understand being >counterintuitive, cryptic and lacking any regularity. > >My experience with Python was out of necessity, short and totally unhappy. Interesting -- since I find Python to effectively be "executable pseudo-code". Block structure is indicated by indentation -- which shouldn't be a concern given how many pretty-printers are used for Ada, C, etc. that give the same effect. PERL is cryptic... (I had to help someone once with a problem debugging a PERL script... I basically had to get a verbal description of what the program was supposed to do, sketched it in Python, THEN did look ups in the index of the camel book to find the PERL equivalent for everything I used in Python). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/