Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

[Pietro Gagliardi]

On May 1, 2008, at 9:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
one does

        if key = 'c' then
                        scanline
                        runcommand
                else
                        generate(key)
                        assemble(key)

This is similar to Python, and prevents the nesting ambiguity of C,
Pascal, and some other languages that use block delimiters.

don't forget fortran.

[off topic] I wonder why it took 20 or so years for Fortran to  
introduce IF..ELSE..END IF. Probably after Kernighan and Plauger,  
1974, it finally came to Backus' senses. :-P