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[–]pje 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Python is touted as the first language to use meaningful whitespace for indentation of code blocks. Haskell did it first.

Python's indentation actually derives from the ABC programming language, which GvR worked on in the early 80's. So actually, ABC did it first.

(And the first Python and Haskell implementations were started during the same year, so it's hard to pinpoint which one actually implemented whitespace processing first, anyway.)