How's ruby compare to it older brother python

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-04-26, Phil Tomson <ptkwt at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Well, there is one big difference syntactically: Python uses indentation 
> as syntax and Ruby doesn't.  Personally I don't prefer Python's 
> 'indentation-as-syntax' since it means that syntactically significant 
> pieces of my code are invisible and if the tab settings in my editor are 
> not the same as yours it can make it difficult to share code (or even 

    Why is this trotted out every time?  I guarentee that my code will look
perfectly fine in your editor.  I cannot guarentee the reverse as while you
might have a penchant for tabs I do not.  I am not alone in that regard.
Here's a snippet from the Python style guide:

Tabs or Spaces?
Never mix tabs and spaces. The most popular way of indenting Python is with
spaces only. The second-most popular way is with tabs only. Code indented with
a mixture of tabs and spaces should be converted to using spaces exclusively.
(In Emacs, select the whole buffer and hit ESC-x untabify.) When invoking the
python command line interpreter with the -t option, it issues warnings about
code that illegally mixes tabs and spaces. When using -tt these warnings
become errors. These options are highly recommended!

    So unless your tab setting is 0 syntactically significant pieces of code
should always have a different indention level.  Furthermore if the
program(mers) follow the style guide then that is a non-issue.

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