From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:11:36 +0100
Date: 2012-04-17T17:11:36+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y5pujq2v.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kp7jr.2343$ay5.1528@newsfe14.iad
Brad Moore <brad.moore@shaw.ca> writes:
> On 15/04/2012 9:34 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:
>> Le 15/04/2012 16:54, Simon Wright a écrit :
>>> Pascal Obry<pascal@obry.net> 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
The current ada-mode works best with this in ~/.emacs
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
which makes writing Whitespace code rather hard.
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2012-04-15 10:27 [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-04-15 11:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-04-16 10:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-15 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 6:59 ` tonyg
2012-04-17 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-15 14:05 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-15 14:21 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-15 14:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-15 15:34 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-17 5:42 ` Brad Moore
2012-04-17 16:11 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2012-04-17 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 21:42 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:00 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-04-15 23:53 ` Brian Drummond
2012-04-16 10:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-04-16 11:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 13:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 15:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 15:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 17:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 21:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 3:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 4:43 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-17 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:10 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-18 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-19 14:22 ` Shark8
2012-04-17 15:48 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 17:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 3:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 3:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-16 19:55 ` sbelmont700
2012-04-17 0:48 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-17 21:59 ` anon
2012-05-13 4:14 ` David Thompson
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