Tab is a very mathmatical way of reading and looking at music, it's not very musical at all. Music is not about numbers and frets, its about pitches. Plus, music notation is universal, and thats pretty cool, its the only form of communication that I know of that is practiced all over the planet.
Anybody who reads music will tell you that in the long run its a lot easier then reading tab, plus you don't have to know the song to play it. I have discovered many great pieces of music by picking up violin books and playing through them.
