begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:20:50AM -0700: > On 6/7/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >What would you call a language that did not need an intervening space > >to indicate such a boundary? > > FORTRAN > > DO 10 I = 1, 100 > DO10I=1,100 > DO10I=1.100 > > First two statements are the same, third one has a minor typo that > caused a missile crash.
Showing that you need to design a language to take into account common programmer mistakes. ... I just realized the terms I was thinking of. There's a difference between whitespace being significant, and being sensitive to whitespace. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
