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Article #2878Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1991 20:03
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1991 20:03
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From the keyboard of cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson):
:In article <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:
:>
:>How can anyone stand to program in a language where whitespace matters
:>in this way? Why should the status of my code depend on whitespace?
:>--
:Howcanyoustandtopostarticlesinalanguagewherewhitespacematters?
Don't be silly. We don't want Fortran. But these should all be
the same.
1) How can you stand to post articles in a language where white space matters?
2) How can you stand to post articles in a language
where white space matters?
3) How can you stand
to post articles
in a language
where white space
matters?
4) How
can you stand
to post articles
in a language
where white space
matters?
Separate tokens with white space, of course, but don't try to tell me
that space, tabs, and newlines are different, or that the indentation
should affect the meaning.
--tom
--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ; Message-ID: <1991Mar02.200330.13408@convex.com> Date: 2 Mar 91 20:03:30 GMT References: <21733@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> <1991Feb26.141339.22191@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com