Classic FORTRAN also (mostly) ignores white space, except for the first columns of a line. That is, the following are equivalent: PROGRAM P R O G R A M PRO GRAM PR OG RA M
From: "Paul Koning via cctalk" <[email protected]> To: "cctalk" <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul Koning" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2026 8:10:21 AM Subject: [cctalk] Re: Good computer books for 1960's computers > On Sep 30, 2026, at 9:30 AM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> 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
