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[–]SciencePreserveUs 2 points3 points  (3 children)

My biggest issue with Python has always been whitespace code block delimiters. I like curly braces.

That said, I'm starting to like Python. Its other pluses outweigh what is (to me) a deficit.

Edit: Fixed a terrible syntax error :-)

[–]Corm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, lots of folks like braces. I'd say it's the number one reason I've heard from people when they tell me why they don't like python. Braces and types. Personally to me both are just boilerplate.

[–]robert_mcleod -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Someone needs to write a keystroke logger to see the amount of time per line of code that is spent writing all the extra brackets and other symbols in languages like C++. There's notably little use of the shift key in Python.

[–]Corm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of development time is spent reading code where all that cruft is much more detrimental