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Yes. I reject all projects based on PHP. At least for the past 5 years anyway. Reason: PHP is a pretty bad programming language and a lot of things don't work as advertised (at least the last time I looked)

I shy away from Python too, but that's because I don't like the idea of white space being syntax. The language seems reasonably sane, apart from maybe the constructors which are a bit odd.

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I used to be opposed to Python's whitespace too, but then I realized that no matter how badly written a piece of code was in Python, I could still read it. This makes dealing with legacy code so much nicer.

It's OK to don't like it. But how much you worked with Python? In any (not really, but nearly) language you have some syntax and some formatting. In Java or like you use tabs or spaces to align your lines anyway, right? I have same align for semantically same lines. Why just don't use this _natural_ alignment for syntax and throw brackets away? One more benefit: There are no discussions about how formatting brackets. Same line? With space before? Next line like in C? Next line with alignment?

Oh I get it.

I just have a problem with it. It's not rational:-)

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