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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:54:30 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

>> I've never understood the need for reserved words nor for any letters
>> either, look at what I consider the best language in the world!
>>
>>    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
>>
>> :)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

I am convinced Whitespace was invented after a week of utter frustration 
spent debugging a large recursive set of Makefiles where someone randomly 
used eight spaces instead of tab, and vice-versa.

(Or maybe building gcc with gnat as a cross-compiler. grrr...)

- Brian