Backed up from a local Blogger export (114055955344700255/114055955344700255.html) on 2026-01-01.

In the vein of wierd chatter on languages and programming in general I brought up this diatribe. Here’s a book where you can actually pay for the right to read this stuff.

I think this sez it well: “The whitespace issue isn’t a big deal (I use a good text editor), but I’ve spent too long debugging make files to be comfortable with invisible-yet-syntactically-significant characters. Python does have the advantage that it doesn’t dictate how much whitespace to use, but I’m still leery of issues with copying and pasting code from a web browser or a newsreader.”

And as Mike put it (paraphrased ;): “No programming language worth it’s salt considers white-space important”

I’ve spent plenty of hours doing style based stuff with code but I actually enjoy it to an extent. I always invest a certain ammount of time in the physical structure and form of my code. Twisted? Yes, I think so.