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I find it odd that you're dividing languages based on syntax. Saying "significant-whitespace languages (Python, Haskell, Coffeescript)" suggests that there's so

• sjwright 12y ago
  > "blue-white-red countries (France, Cambodia, Russia)" As distinct from "red-white-blue" countries (USA, Cuba, North Korea) or "blue-red-white" countries (Netherlands, Australia, Iceland). After all, most programming languages are written as lines of code that represent statements that the computer must execute in some comprehensible order. Wake me up when this metaphor is deemed passé!
• CoffeeDregs 12y ago
  suggests that there's some sort of commonality between them There is a commonality: they use significant whitespace. I understand that this is a syntactic difference and, given that I said I had used each quite a bit, that they're quite different languages. That said, syntax is chosen for a reason and I feel most comfortable in the significant whitespace world. I'm excited by Rust but, shame on me, the syntax had confused me into thinking the language was more C-ish than Haskell-ish. My point in the grandparent was that the article did a nice job of changing my (admittedly shallow) opinion.