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Re: [xml-dev] The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

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To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
From: tblanchard@mac.com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:56:00 +0200
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, simonstl@simonstl.com (Simon St.Laurent)
In-reply-to: <200210231401.KAA22760@mail2.reutershealth.com>

On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:48  PM, John Cowan wrote:
>
> Python is essentially Scheme with indentation instead of parentheses.

Yeah, which seems fragile to me considering the number of programs and 
editors I have lying around that silently convert tabs to n spaces and 
vice versa - it just doesn't strike me as a robust syntax design.

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