[cctalk] Re: Good computer books for 1960's computers

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Sep 30, 2026, at 9:30 AM, ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2026-09-29 5:57 p.m., Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
>> And all our daily driver languages look like Algol or FORTRAN,
>> excepting Forth and APL, both written by mad scientists,
> 
> And token parsing still is from the 1950's for many languages
> where blank spaces are ignored and a end of line/card or semicolon
> is needed to separate id's.

Huh?  The only language I can think of that ignores whitespace is TECO.  Just 
about everything else treats whitespace as a token separator.

        paul