Interesting language comparison article

[Hasan Aljudy]

J C Calvarese wrote:
> In article <dv4uo9$1337$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Hasan Aljudy says...
> 
>>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

Good point.
I say the clurpit is the evil tab character, it should be removed from 
all computer systems in the world!! :P
The "Tab" keyboard button should just be a `macro` for 4 spaces, not a 
separate character!!