Interesting language comparison article

[Charles]

 > The "Tab" keyboard button should just be a `macro` for 4 spaces, not a
 > separate character!!

If you were using emacs you could change to that in 1/2 a second :P.

Charlie

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 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!!