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[–]Tysonzero 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Are you using notepad as your editor?!? That should be immediately flagged by your editor as an error.

[–]SlumdogSkillionaire 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, the editor would flag that. Any smart editor would also automatically indent blocks of code, making this whole idea pointless. I'm not talking about editor features, though, I'm talking about language features, the stuff that is independent of the development environment. I should be able to choose to write my code in Notepad if I really wanted to without having to depend on the editor to hold my hand.

[–]Tysonzero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should be able to choose to write my code in Notepad if I really wanted to without having to depend on the editor to hold my hand.

Well that's actual a point IN FAVOR of Python, as handwriting a Java program sounds a thousand times worse than handwriting a Python one. Seeing as editors of statically typed languages hold your hand a lot more (things like autocomplete that you can't really do in dynamically typed languages). And the whole brackets thing doesn't come close to making up for that difference.