Actually, I'm curious why people don't like white space sensitive languages. I get the tab v space thing, and there are certainly a couple of other down sides, but none of these seem like deal breakers to me. Given that python was the second language I learned, it's possible that I drank the coolaid early and I'm blind to some things that are truly egregious.
So the question is: why do folks completely avoid a language for a single relatively bland syntactic feature? Is there some cost I'm not aware of, or is it just stylistic/aesthetic?
So the question is: why do folks completely avoid a language for a single relatively bland syntactic feature? Is there some cost I'm not aware of, or is it just stylistic/aesthetic?