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Feb. 5th, 2009 07:35 pmBruce came over and spent the day teaching me Views in TurboGears, and some Controllers too. I'm confident and ready to contribute! After dinner with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
le_bebna_kamni and a newcomer, the four of us are at Python User Group now.
Hi, my name is Matt, and I ... I ... I actually like whitespace. (Hi, Matt)
WHY? WHY MATT, WHY OH WHY? you ask, on your knees in supplication to the skies, if you are namedjer_. I admit I may be wrong and change my mind later, but here is my impression so far: I am frankly going to be reading ten times as much code as I'll write. I expect to grab other people's open source code and modify it to my needs. Maybe I'll only put in a couple dozen lines and modify twice that many lines in a script. So, I need it to be readable. All these years I looked at source code and saw an indigestible wad of weird characters and gibberish. It was intimidating, although I now realize that coding is not as bad as it looked. The point is, Python and Ruby are fairly English-like. Whatever little negative difference white space will make to my productivity while typing, I will consider a good-citizenship tax.
le_bebna_kamni and a newcomer, the four of us are at Python User Group now.Hi, my name is Matt, and I ... I ... I actually like whitespace. (Hi, Matt)
WHY? WHY MATT, WHY OH WHY? you ask, on your knees in supplication to the skies, if you are named
jer_. I admit I may be wrong and change my mind later, but here is my impression so far: I am frankly going to be reading ten times as much code as I'll write. I expect to grab other people's open source code and modify it to my needs. Maybe I'll only put in a couple dozen lines and modify twice that many lines in a script. So, I need it to be readable. All these years I looked at source code and saw an indigestible wad of weird characters and gibberish. It was intimidating, although I now realize that coding is not as bad as it looked. The point is, Python and Ruby are fairly English-like. Whatever little negative difference white space will make to my productivity while typing, I will consider a good-citizenship tax.
