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