Oh, right. Come to think of it, so does BASIC-PLUS (when not in "extend" mode)
and perhaps other classic BASIC versions.
paul
> On Sep 30, 2026, at 11:19 AM, Norman Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
