Interesting language comparison article

[J C Calvarese]

In article <dv4uo9$1337$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Hasan Aljudy says...
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>Charles wrote:
>>  > IMHO that article is more making fun of languages with which
>>  > the author doesn't like than anything else.
>> 
>> Yes, but alot of his rants ring true for me.  Like whitespace and python 
>> , any language that makes whitespace meaningful is hard to take seriously.
>
>That's a completely irrational argument.

I disagree. Python will complain about invisible errors due to its reverence for
whitespace.

I wasted a ridiculous amount of time before I figured out that Python wouldn't
compile my program because it saw a difference between a tab and the equivalent
number of spaces. Now I know what I did was wrong, but a tab and several spaces
still look identical on my screen. IMHO Python would be better if it used
something visible (such of {}, begin/end, etc.).

jcc7