Well, I can certainly understand a preference, but you're going too far to imply that Python is not a "reasonable" language.

Avoiding hard tabs in your code is all that you need to do and that's quite a simple thing for anyone able to actually write useful code. I've been coding in Python for years and years and have only run across that problem a handful of times, many years ago. Once the official guideline became "no hard tabs", the problem went away even for newbies.

Python doesn't make you guess 'should "10" + "15" == "1015" or should it be 25'. It is a strongly-typed language.

If you absolutely need a compiler, then Python is not a fit for you. You missed on all of your other complaints, however.

No, you're missing the point. It's not acting as a nanny, it's merely removing the redundancy of having both reasonably-indented code and start/stop tokens. That's it.

One of the interesting things about Python is that very few new programming languages use required-indentation, probably due to fear of backlash by the narrow-minded. I suspect that this tends to help keep the Python community (for whom this is a great feature) from dribbling away to the "new hotness" and may be why Python keeps getting stronger and stronger (in contrast to old competitors like Ruby and Perl).

Well, apparently ISIS wasn't even "Junior Varsity" when Bush left office. ISIS is on Obama, by his own admission. Of course, he wouldn't admit that on purpose.

Slashdot should get in on this game - take over "unused" user IDs for the purpose of posting comments ("secondary" opinions) to articles such as this. They could even monetize it by putting in endorsements and links to product.

I jest, I jest - Slashdot is easily my favorite website. Hoping they keep it that way.

I can only comment on stories that I've posted, as I don't see other submissions, but my posts have been edited many times (maybe every time). In my opinion, the editing always improved on what I submitted.

I don't know the answer to this, but I suspect I know the answer: does Hilary's printed email dump (which is all that she will provide) include the email headers and associated metadata that comes with an electronic copy of an email?

I rather doubt that she has; but, I ask because she claims that she has fulfilled her obligation by providing printed versions of the emails. So, even if we were willing to concede that incredibly dubious claim, has she really complied with the law by not providing the entire electronic record?

Obviously, this part of the email can be quite important (just ask the NSA), so if she isn't providing that, what is her justification for not doing so?

If the law doesn't specifically make an exemption for that, then it can't be omitted. When she received an email, the header is a part of the email that she received. Therefore, it is part of the official record.

Name it "Baron Ünderbheit".

Interestingly, this article was in the news just a few days ago: Report: Harvard Faculty Supports Democrats a Whopping 96% of the Time

Coincidentally, just read this article, today - Surprise: ER Visits Still Going Up Despite Promises Obamacare Would Bring Them Down .

Sure, because that is what happened. I'm not using "anointed" as a criticism of Hilary, I'm using it to refer to the lack of credible Democratic contenders. It's a term that is used to show that possible contenders have stepped aside and have ceded the field to one player. It very much described what has happened to the Democrat's nomination process.

I suspect, however, that you really don't have anything to say about the substance of my post, so you choose to try to make an issue out of the way that I said it -- "it tells me to to ignore the person using it". And then, you go on to say that was my only serious critique - when that wasn't my critique at all. How droll.

Insightful? This is hilarious. The Democrats had practically anointed Hilary, who should be on trial for a felony for her email scandal. Now, even the NY Times is trying to get someone else credible to run for the Dems, as the extent of her corruption has been revealed to be truly enormous.

Responding to myself, I guess the original article that I had read was talking about tagatose

I wonder why it's not more popular.

Many years ago, I read in Omni Magazine (a source to be trusted, for sure) of a breakthrough that was dubbed "Left-handed sugar". The claim was that some lab had produced a compound that was essentially the same as regular sugar, but in some fashion, it's molecular arrangement was a mirror-image. The trick of it was that the taste buds thought it was sugar, but the digestive system would ignore it.

For years, I expected to hear about some real product; but I guess that I was fooled.

It's right there in the article "They can hold from two to ten people, depending on the model ...." The minimum number of inhabitants is two.