<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Colin Burnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmlburnett@gmail.com">cmlburnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>If I write anything at home its in Python. I absolutely refuse to use<br>
PHP any more and I hate Ruby's syntax. (My eternal love is C so I'm<br>
not keen on Ruby's syntax nor its progenitors.)</blockquote><div> </div><div>I find it interesting to see someone from a C background interested in Python because I strongly associate Python with whitespace syntax and whitespace syntax with makefiles. And the biggest problems I've ever had with makefiles have always originated from screwing up the tabs/spaces.<br>
<br>Most people counter with 'well, use a good IDE'. But for one-off projects, I'm more likely to use Vim, and I don't like to clutter my IDE with tab marks anyway.<br><br>Besides, Perl does everything I need to get done, and does it well, so I've never successfully picked up any other similar languages. I've tried Ruby with a little success, and I've tried Scala and a few others. But if you've got enough tools in your tool chest, it's harder to learn new ones. Maybe I should brush off my Ruby book again...<br>
<br>Chris<br><br></div></div><br>