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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c733905936c6b6b0 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.236.198 with SMTP id uw6mr12081656pbc.3.1334641360791; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni65459pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe14.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Brad Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good References: <4F8AD958.4030901@obry.net> <4f8aea72$0$21460$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <4f8aea72$0$21460$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.145.219.148 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: newsfe14.iad 1334641360 68.145.219.148 (Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:42:40 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:42:40 UTC Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:42:40 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1791 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-04-16T23:42:40-06:00 List-Id: On 15/04/2012 9:34 AM, Pascal Obry wrote: > Le 15/04/2012 16:54, Simon Wright a �crit : >> Pascal Obry writes: >> >>> Nasser, >>> >>>> I am sometimes just amazed at what I read on the net >>>> about what makes a language good. But this one tops >>>> the list. >>> >>> 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) > > Pure and clean... What else? > > Pascal. > What I like about Whitespace is that after a hard day of debugging, I can make corrections to the program and then print out the modified listing using the same piece of paper. Brad