[SLL] enforced white space

[Chris Fischer]

FWIW, I came across this once regarding problems to aware of with php. 
Just thought maybe it would useful to know about the downsides.

http://toykeeper.net/soapbox/php_problems/

Regards,

Chris



Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:
> On Thu, January 15, 2009 3:12 pm, Chuck Wolber wrote:
>
>   
>> I have tried Python and I personally find the use of enforced whitespace
>> extremely objectionable. The runtime has no business dictating the
>> formatting of my code.
>>     
>
> There are some odd white space issues in BASH too.
>
> Would you elaborate on why you find enforced white space objectionable? Isn't this a
> sort of syntax only issue?
>
> I personally am most excited about PHP and the ease of use of OO concepts. For my
> purposes it seems to be pretty good because you're really only depending on the user
> having a basic working web browser. I guess it depends on where you want the actual
> application to run and the capabilities of the language. Probably the scope of what
> JAVA can do is a lot larger but Java apps seem slow to me.
>
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