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On the other hand, back in college I was a TA for an intro to programming course that used Java. This:

> They didn't pay too much attention to white spaces and tabs, probably because they are "invisible"

can get so much worse than people imagine, when the language doesn't enforce it. It was that experience that made me lean towards python being a good introductory language, to help people get used to correctly indenting code in general.



Agreed. Zig for example is considering triggering an error for incorrectly indented code/misleading indentation:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/35




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