Re: PHP vs JAVA

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dan Munro <dan@danmunro.com> wrote: > > 1. There are no statement terminators. Lose your indentation for ANY > > reason and your program is well and truly screwed, in ways you can't > > imagine. > > > > 2. Python programs fail in the most ungraceful way I've ever seen in an > > interpreted programming language. > > 1. Indent properly. In php, if you put an open or close brace out of place > your code will break in unexpected ways as well. If it's hard to tell if > something is indented properly, your code should be refactored so that it > is. > > 2. In my experience this has a lot to do with how some people use python > and not python itself. > > I can't argue on point two, since that's where all of my worst failure have come from. But as to indenting, I have had the problem of opening a file on a new OS, only to find that the default editor there has wiped out my formatting. With PHP, that's not a big deal: as long as I put my braces in the right places, everything will continue to work. With Python -- or any whitespace delimited language -- it's fatal, and I have to hope I can exit without saving anything. Andy