I don't see how the two compare. As a programmer, you need pointers for dynamic allocation. You don't need to use whitespace in paths, ever. It is a convenience for the user.
Whitespace in paths occur, similar to how buffer overflows occur. It's the job of the programmer to understand this and guard against it; but many don't. And all you need is one bash script that does something like this
rm -rf $path
to go from working one day to having deleted an entire directory tree just because someone named their file
