[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

[Mike Katz]

I completely agree about python and white space.B  It is an incredibly 
powerful language but for me, a C/C++ programmer where white space is 
irrelevant, it's difficult to make that jump.

As for code that looks like noise or a baud rate mismatch program in APL 
or even worse in Tecop
.

On 10/16/2021 12:41 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 10/16/21 1:39 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
>>>> *: Answers of "Any version of python anywhere is a bad idea" obviously
>>>> accepted here in the spirit intended, but not necessarily helpful to
>>>> the pkgsrc list :-p
>>>
>>> In my experience, people who say that didn't endure the Perl era. ;)
>>
>> I don't know...I think I'd take Perl's legacy cruft and peculiarities 
>> over the
>> pain that was the Python 2 -> 3 transition :P
>
> B  Well I certainly can't disagree with you there. (and I'm someone who 
> can almost always find a way to disagree)B  I'm no big fan of Python; 
> any language in which whitespace is a syntactic element rubs me the 
> wrong way.B  But Perl still looks like line noise to me.B  What a nasty, 
> disgusting language.
>
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B  -Dave