Re: Blogging sucks

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: Blogging sucks
Date: 17:52 on 13 Oct 2005
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> It isn't anything like Python at all. There is only one level of
> indentation. Once a block is indented far enough to be considered
> a code block, all further indentation is literal.
>
> Not to mention that *all* alternative solutions are *really*
> hateful.

Strangely, I don't find Restructured Text's use of indentation to
determine markup nearly as distasteful as I find python's.  This is
probably because text markup is 10x easier than code markup (e.g.,
I almost never have to worry about things like line continuations).

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                -- Prof. Charles Kelemen, Swarthmore CS Dept.
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