Now Someone Needs To Make a Language Called Mongoose
Posted by Christopher Smith
Check Esterbrook has recently shared with the Kernel Panic Programming Study Group a new programming language he’s developing called Cobra. I haven’t had a chance to look at it closely yet, but I like that his goals are so eminently practical. He gets bonus points for employing Python’s “whitespace is part of the syntax” principle, but then one upping it by insisting that one always use tabs, never spaces, for indenting blocks. That alone is probably going to convince me to use it.
I folded as soon as the first person asked for spaces. I want Cobra to be popular, too.
No mixture is allowed, though. It’s an error to have spaces and tabs used for indentation. Also, I fixed space-based indentation to multiples of 4 when I read that Guido has to use multiples of 2 in his Google code even though 4 is his preference. :-)
So one tab or 4 spaces.
-Chuck
TABS RULE!