You're taking this all too seriously. Everything's cool.

I suppose it bothers me because I will be compelled to view. It's another couple hundred bucks out of my pocket. I also feel compelled to bitch about it, because that's what we do.

Fuck you, George Lucas. Fuck you.

Actually, America was gearing up to join the war just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They also contributed very significantly previously to that from a resources standpoint.

Same deal here....I was going in for a quick Macgyver fix, perhaps some things are best left to memory.

Wait, maybe with some bubble-gum, a proxy, and my shoelace.....ahhhhhhh, that's it. Yes, it's as bad as I remember.

If something like indentation is a show-stopper for your choice of language, then you are missing the point.

Computer languages are about data structures and idioms for manipulating them efficiently. In contrast, whitespace is a cosmetic, superficial thing.

Yes, I adore Python. (I wish I had paid attention to it ten years sooner than I did.)

I've only been programming professionally for 3 years now, but already I'm shaking in my boots over having to rethink and relearn the way I've done things to accomodate these massively parallel architectures. I can't imagine how scared must be the old timers of 20, 30, or more years. Or maybe the good ones who are still hacking decades later have already had to deal with paradigm shifts and aren't scared at all?