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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 06:46:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml From: Ted Dennison References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1CECCA.65285DB3@dresdner-bank.com> <9firmt$482$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1D0357.645C9FAE@amsjv.com> <9fj23f$6oo$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1DF628.4951B79A@brighton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:46:03 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 13:46:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10425 comp.lang.ada:8227 comp.lang.awk:2819 comp.lang.clarion:21215 comp.lang.java.programmer:74054 comp.lang.pl1:812 comp.lang.vrml:3553 Date: 2001-06-06T13:46:03+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B1DF628.4951B79A@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > >Marin David Condic wrote: >> "Philip Anderson" wrote in message >> news:3B1D0357.645C9FAE@amsjv.com... >> > >> > CORAL 66 conveniently allowed spaces in identifier names (but keywords >> > were quoted so they stood out). >> >> Must have been kind of tough to parse. > >Why? The lexer just treats whitespace as it would treat underlines >in Ada: When I'm in one of those weirder moods and I think Intercal didn't go far enough, I've occasionaly considered creating a language where the *only* significant characters are the whitespace. Everything would have to coded using sequences of spaces, tabs, and newlines, separated by text. Since the text itself wouldn't matter, you could use all of it for comments. Thus this language would be inherently self-documenting! :-) I think I was inspired by my initial frustration with make's tabs. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com