It last night's Java Meetup, I worked out why it is that Python people are so nice to one another; we don't have braces, so we don't have brace wars.
Posted to Python by Simon Brunning at February 17, 2004 10:40 AMYou can still have many other wars though.
Vi vs Emacs is fighting talk down our way.
jEdit? ;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on February 17, 2004 05:06 PMUm... tabs vs. spaces?
Posted by: Ian Bicking on February 17, 2004 05:28 PMWell, no one uses tabs so there can be no war on that one. ;-)
Tabs vs. Spaces? Hmmm.
Well, there are only two possibilities[1] - tabs or spaces. While I can think of a couple of advantages for tabs[2], I think that spaces' advanteges[3] win out.
Besides, the BDFL has spoken[4].
[1] Two *sane* possibilities, that is. A mix of tabs and spaces doesn't count.
[2] Smaller source files, work well with really shit text editors.
[3] Mean the same thing on all platforms, don't get stripped out by various newsreaders.
[4] http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html