Does anyone know whether a similar contest exists with common "easy to read" languages and relatively quirk-free like Python? It would appear to me that doing the same would be harder in such a language, though not at all impossible. I'd love to go through some examples.
Python itself will allow you to do that (have an indent by 4 spaces, and a tab character on the next line) as far as I know, IDLE won't run though. Not that anyone should ever use IDLE.
while not exactly similar in terms of objective, http://js1k.com might tickle your fancy - the aim is to write a javascript app within some category or definition which is provided at the start of the contest, and to use no more than 1kb for your app's code (not including what they give you). It can really test your ability to minify by hand!
