[ale] flip flopping on programming, now interested in c++

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 07/03/2012 11:17 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Fortran has "forced formatting" - in Python, the formatting is how you
> group, i.e., define the "insides" of structures.  But it's not
> column-specific.

We are picking nits here.  Just the same, you shouldn't have to have the 
language enforce your formatting.

>
> On 7/2/12 5:09 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> On 07/01/2012 01:11 PM, Stephen Haywood wrote:
>>> I have to second Python. Ruby is nice too but it has been so coopted by
>>> the Rails people that it's hard to find good info that is not Rails
>>> related. Python is excellent for system programming and has an easy
>>> interface with C if you need it.
>> The thing I don't like about python, is the forced formatting.
>>
>> If you don't format your code properly, you shouldn't be writing code.
>>
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