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The compiler only pays attention to the semicolons and braces while ignoring the line breaks and indentation, but humans usually only pay attention to the line breaks and indentation while ignoring the semicolons and braces. This gives the code the opportunity to lie about what it’s really doing. Consequently we need to take extra care when writing in C, Java, C++, C# etc.

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2 comments

  1. Seems to be a solid argument in favor of Python

    Scott Wehrenberg - 2nd January 2009 16:01 - #

  2. Seems to be a solid argument in favor of Python

    And Haskell.

    masklinn - 5th January 2009 13:16 - #

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