Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
by dreamcompiler on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:20PM
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I guess you're right. I get annoyed hearing people say "all the parentheses drive me crazy" but I'm driven crazy by the indentation-bracketing of Python. I'm sure once I got used to it in a good editor it wouldn't be an issue.
The smaller and more focused feature set is probably one of the reasons its popular. There's also ergonomic reasons, which have a big effect on whether people who aren't initially fully committed tune out or blow up early on in their encounter with the language.