From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 03:37:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Message-ID: References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1CECCA.65285DB3@dresdner-bank.com> <9firmt$482$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1D0357.645C9FAE@amsjv.com> <9fj23f$6oo$Organization: LJK Software Date: 6 Jun 2001 06:37:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 991823850 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:37:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:37:30 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8220 comp.lang.awk:2810 comp.lang.clarion:21200 comp.lang.java.programmer:73991 comp.lang.pl1:806 comp.lang.vrml:3543 Date: 2001-06-06T06:37:24-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B1DF628.4951B79A@brighton.ac.uk>, John English writes: > Marin David Condic wrote: >> "Philip Anderson" wrote in message >> news:3B1D0357.645C9FAE@amsjv.com... >> > >> > CORAL 66 conveniently allowed spaces in identifier names (but keywords >> > were quoted so they stood out). >> >> Must have been kind of tough to parse. > > Why? The lexer just treats whitespace as it would treat underlines > in Ada: > identifier = letter (letter|digit|whitespace)* > or more likely ignores whitespace inside identifiers. > > Using 'BEGIN' and 'END' was a pain, though, and even worse was that > comments were Algol-60 style: > 'COMMENT' ... ; > Leaving out the semicolon would silently lose the next statement and > was it nearly impossible to spot the lack of a near-invisible punctuation > mark... :-( Languages certainly have come a long way from when it was possible to lose subsequent lines due to lack of a comment terminator. Now it is just a matter of getting people to use the advanced languages.