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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:46:36 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:46:37 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-nFZUfSXSwIpA64ISujCyXgVWvmkQ3L5JJlM2YVDy2cDnAFihr/yMMkSiPce23se5QbM3Qi7ZT95ylHT!PdAUA5hi+HlxGOWh5FyWNJZSwNSbitQ8zb7ZuRpPsPke1Ixk9UJ2gNQkJahXI/4pa7V6jgG2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1929 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56898 Date: 2019-07-20T09:46:37-04:00 List-Id: On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:09:44 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" declaimed the following: > >Why not to remove just everything? Great minds already thought about it. >Look at Whitespace: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) > >It is far ahead of Python in terms of removing annoying stuff. The code >is absolutely pristine, nothing disturbing catches your eye or distracts >you from the exciting process of counting spaces... Lovely... And since FORTRAN IV ignores spaces on a line, one can embed Whitespace code within F-IV keywords and identifiers, not just between them... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/