Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Actually, it isn't.  At no time have I ever had any problems  
> with Python
> code which would not also be an issue in other code as well.  The only
> difference being you have to be careful about indention in one  
> case, braces in
> the other.

Still, after dealing with all the nightmares of things like 'make'  
that care about tabs vs. spaces, etc., I'm inclined to shy away from  
languages where whitespace is critically important.  Whitespace is so  
fragile.