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   rbowman to All   
   Re: naughty Python   
   31 Dec 25 19:13:38   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:13:27 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
   > On 12/31/25 02:57, rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:11:36 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 12/30/25 20:01, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-12-31, c186282  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>      Ah, LISP, the only language composed entirely of randomly   
   >>>>>      spaced brackets   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Lots of Irritating Spurious Parentheses   
   >>>   
   >>>     Were they parens ? It's been a long time.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah. I thumbed through the Wizard book and the example are nicely   
   >> indeted and look sort of comprehensible until you get to the last line   
   >>   
   >> ))))))));   
   >   
   >    And some complain that Python indents are too hard to deal with   
      
   They did take some getting used to. Using % in Vim to bounce between   
   matching pairs of {} or () is handy.   
      
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