On Thu, 15 Jun 2000  09:51:32 -0400, Warren Postma wrote:
> The lingering memory of COBOL and Fortran, as well as some horrible
> incidents involving Makefiles, have given me the cold shivers with respect
> to whitespace and indentation.
[snip]
> I have many developers in my office who would cry more loudly than I about
> Python's "required indentation", and yet these same developers are always
> telling me that all our company's programmers should tab and indent their
> code the same way,
> for "readability".   Few can see the contradiction there.

"Most people's [C] programs should be indented
six feet downward and covered with dirt."
-- Blair P. Houghton (somewhere on UseNet)


Sorry, couldn't resist   8)

Michel