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[Tim Harig]

On 2010-11-04, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 16:49, Mark Wooding wrote:
>> Seebs<usenet-nospam at seebs.net>  writes:
>>    * I don't have many problems with tools trashing whitespace in Python
>>      programs, though I have seen web forum software mangling
>>      indentation; since this makes nontrivial chunks of almost any
>>      programming language illegible, I'm more than willing to blame the
>>      forum software for this.  I haven't personally seen indentation
>>      trashed by email software, for example (though I steer well clear of
>>      people who try to send me HTML mail).
>>
> If you don't use <pre> ... </pre> or some such then any programming
> language is going to look bad!

Looking bad and being unrecoverable are two different things.