From: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:52:57 +0800
Date: 2017-06-22T00:52:57+08:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <m2k2458ey1.fsf@informatimago.com>
On 22/6/2017 12:48 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Which leads me to the conclusion that the origin of a lot of problems is
> the fact that we save "source" files that are used as-is both for
> human presentation/edition and for machine processing (compiling). I
> would propose the alternative to save the programs eg. in the form of an
> abstract syntactic tree (let's say lisp S-expressions), and each time it
> is loaded in an IDE/editor, it would be unparsed into the specific
> syntactic and layout/indenting preferences of the programmer; and when
> saved, the programmer specific syntax would be parsed, and the
> S-expression syntactic tree would be saved to the file. Machine
> processing can use directly these S-expression forms.
Basically, a code beautifier. But some programming languages' CR and LF
mean something. In the case of COBOL, the first few columns have meanings.
Which makes me believe hard, true SPACE is a simple and better solution.
Anyway....
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2017-06-18 13:45 [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-18 20:13 ` Per Sandberg
2017-06-18 23:03 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-19 0:22 ` Lew Pitcher
2017-06-19 5:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2017-06-19 14:28 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-20 3:00 ` Snit
2017-06-21 12:57 ` lyttlec
2017-06-19 10:46 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 1:19 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-19 2:23 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-19 19:42 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-20 1:49 ` frankmanning
2017-06-20 2:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-06-21 13:02 ` lyttlec
2017-06-20 2:19 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-20 18:44 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-21 13:07 ` lyttlec
2017-06-19 10:47 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 11:24 ` AnthonyL
2017-06-19 12:26 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 13:53 ` JJ
2017-06-19 14:27 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-20 21:51 ` Anton Shepelev
2017-06-21 10:27 ` jm.tarrasa
2017-06-21 12:27 ` Simon Wright
2017-06-22 0:09 ` Robert Eachus
2017-06-21 16:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2017-06-21 16:52 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang [this message]
2017-07-05 18:36 ` Adam Jensen
2017-06-23 2:24 ` Randy Brukardt
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