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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.159.210 with SMTP id w201mr7112070ywg.44.1472647670137; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:47:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.20.143 with SMTP id d15mr821057ote.1.1472647670100; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!j37no11847937qta.0!news-out.google.com!n186ni1150ith.0!nntp.google.com!e124no32503ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:47:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.225.80.105; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.225.80.105 References: <24d4ffc3-3915-4102-96ae-68d11d881443@googlegroups.com> <2efe4d01-4cd4-4aea-bc54-98ea5f26ec8a@googlegroups.com> <2cf07aa6-9cbb-44bc-8042-601c57c85457@googlegroups.com> <328fa4a3-6215-4101-835a-7eaf7ed72a8c@googlegroups.com> <1d62cc93-324a-4c87-b9d3-67c24cb54c5f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:47:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Received-Bytes: 2101 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2877681796 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31657 Date: 2016-08-31T05:47:49-07:00 List-Id: 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