From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:47:49 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-08-31T05:47:49-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c369c78b-6304-4d1f-b4bb-60c0d90c56ac@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nq3uf5$kjm$1@dont-email.me>
On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 2:33:43 PM UTC+2, Brian Drummond wrote:
> (*) one of only two languages I've seen, where substituting multiple
> spaces for tabs will change the semantics. I suspect "make" was the
> inspiration for the other...
And in "The Art of Unix Programming" the author cites the "make" creator, who admits that it was his stupidest idea ever.
Now, go and tell this to the advocates of that other language, for whom attaching semantics to the amount of whitespace is one of the best language features. ;-)
--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
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2016-07-23 5:23 Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue Devin
2016-07-23 6:57 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-23 7:34 ` Devin
2016-07-23 8:07 ` Devin
2016-07-23 16:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-24 2:32 ` Devin
2016-07-24 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-25 4:35 ` Devin
2016-07-25 8:07 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-20 22:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-21 1:30 ` Devin
2016-08-21 1:37 ` Devin
2016-08-21 14:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-22 4:00 ` Devin
2016-08-22 11:37 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-29 17:49 ` Nicholas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-29 21:51 ` rieachus
2016-08-30 14:55 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 0:01 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-31 10:15 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-31 12:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 9:15 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-01 16:33 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-02 0:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-02 12:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-02 15:24 ` G.B.
2016-09-02 21:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-03 9:20 ` G.B.
2016-09-03 13:33 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-04 15:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 13:40 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-03 11:58 ` Brian Drummond
2016-09-03 12:12 ` Björn Lundin
2016-08-30 12:33 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-30 13:01 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-30 15:06 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 10:34 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-01 11:08 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 12:47 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2016-09-01 0:02 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-09-01 9:03 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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