Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
news:wccty0if31u.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> ada-mode also untabifies!
>
> So we need to abandon our plans to rewrite GNAT in Whitespace?!
>
> By the way, it's probably possible to write a program that is both
> a Whitespace program and an Ada program.  It might even do
> the same thing in both languages, if you're very very careful.

I was thinking something similar; Whitespace (or a variant) would be a great 
language to use to hide some program in plain sight. For instance, you could 
distribute some open source Ada software for a game, but have a program 
embedded within it to do something totally different. However, this 
capability only seems useful for various sorts of criminals -- I can't think 
of anything legitimate to do with it.

Otherwise, I'd start figuring out how to map Ada code to a Whitespace 
variant.

                                  Randy.