For what reasons do some programmers vehemently hate languages where whitespace matters (e.g. Python

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Published on 2010-04-22T23:44:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 23:53 UTC
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C++ is my first language, and as such I'm used to whitespace being ignored. However, I've been toying around with Python, and I don't find it too hard to get used to the whitespace rules. It seems, however, that a lot of programmers on the Internet can't get past the whitespace rules. From what I've seen, peoples' C++ programs tend to be formatted very consistently with respect to whitespace (or else it's pretty hard to read), so why do some people have such a problem with whitespace-based languages like Python?

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