[jclulow]

I learnt BASIC when I was young, and then (Borland Turbo)Pascal after that, and C family languages (including C and Java and such) after that. Then I learnt Python, and even wrote a lot of it at Uni and for various jobs -- enough that I'm pretty firm in my distaste for significant whitespace, and I don't believe it's because I started with C.

It may be popular, but it presents a number of challenges in Python and in other languages like YAML. If you're going to buck the C trend, at least make it somewhat ergonomic like Lua which I learnt recently and kind of like.

[IgorPartola]

It’s funny both you and the GP comment followed the same exact steps as I did. I guess I technically learned Pascal with with Turbo Pascal and also with Delphi. But yeah it’s funny because Python is where I ended up. What I like about it is that it seems very pragmatic. There is no sloppiness in it but also no high dogma of how things ought to be if you want to be sure your program is correct. It lets you get stuff done and gets out of your way.

[mixmastamyk]

Me three, and I think the intented blocks were a masterstroke. Why do so many others have redundant braces or begin/end markers while still need to indent?