One advantage of Python is that indentation etc. are required. This is such baloney. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code in Algol-esque langua

One advantage of Python is that indentation etc. are required. This is such baloney. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code in Algol-esque languages, and just about every last line (by which I mean > 99.9%, with possibly exceptions once in a blue moon where I accidentally hit tab before I compile or something like that, which just gets cleaned up the next time I reformat anyways...) of that was properly indented. It's just too easy not to do, and I'd fire, almost immediately, anyone that was checking in code that wasn't indented properly. Really. Where are all these horrible developers that don't sanely indent their code? To hear the Python folks tell it, they're fucking up codebases all over the place with their carelessness, but I've never personally experienced any pain whatsoever over this. Certainly nothing that a simple CMD+i can fix... Hell, different newline types interacting badly with version control have caused me so much more trouble than indentation, and Python's not immune to that. Nor is it immune to people's editors globally forcing tabs to spaces or vice versa.