Re: Channel 7, Plan 9
Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:28:27 -0800
> ANY programming language in which whitespace has semantic value (other
> than as a token separator) is fundamentally screwed from the outset.
> And don't give me the tired old argument about temporal spacing, having
> semantic value in spoken language, having the same value as whitespace
> in written language. Tell it to the Cobol programmers to make them feel
> better... ;-)
Oh wait! I forgot about that. 8-) At the time, the cross-platform and
cross-network interpretable stuff was rosing my glasses. As I
mentioned, I got kicked out of the church of Python a long time ago.
Greg
> Okay, that's my Python rant. Hope I didn't offend anyone *too much.*
> :-)
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> Thanks for listening... ;-)
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> jb
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