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Article #2804Re: improve language by dropping ;
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 16:01
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 16:01
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From the keyboard of rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter): :It is possible to design languages without separators; however it is :almost universally agreed that the hair isn't worth it. There is, however, :a real split between languages which use end-of-line as a statement :separator and those which use semicolon. (Fortran vs Algol.) Or awk vs C. Personally, I prefer the C method. I don't like having to escape my newlines at the end of the line if it's not the end of the statement. But yes, some people have different tastes. They're wrong. :-) --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "All things are possible, but not all expedient." (in life, UNIX, and perl)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ; Message-ID: <1991Feb18.160112.7697@convex.com> Date: 18 Feb 91 16:01:12 GMT References: <8507.27b91f9e@jetson.uh.edu> <329@smds.UUCP> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com