> I think the various Unicode whitespace characters are likely to gain more use generally. The big problem though is that whitespace characters all look alike and so you can't read and parse the way a computer does.

I think the big problem is, that there are people out there, that think Python programmers have a huge urge to use non-standard whitespace characters in their source code.

> Perl is a wonderful language, but to write good quality, maintainable, robust code in it takes some work. But that work is well rewarded.

The reward for that kind of code is the same in all languages, but your statement implies, it's maybe better to choose a language, where it's not as hard as with Perl to write good quality, maintainable, robust code. Point taken.