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Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.

Durham students have fun again ;-)

By Andris Birkmanis at 2004-10-19 12:10 | Fun | other blogs | 7186 reads

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Bleached and smirched Perl

And of course also Bleach and Smirch.

Personally, I prefer smirched Perl to bleached - it corresponds to my perception of the language ;-)

By Andris Birkmanis at Tue, 2004-10-19 13:02 | login or register to post comments

Shades

Shades of Generalizing Overloading for C++2000

By Phil Armstrong at Wed, 2004-10-20 14:32 | login or register to post comments

Can't be serious...

It IS a joke, isn't it? =:-O

By Fernando Rodriguez at Wed, 2004-10-20 16:09 | login or register to post comments

Read the last sentence of the

Read the last sentence of the article

By Dave Menendez at Wed, 2004-10-20 20:37 | login or register to post comments

Phew! O:-)

That was way too much, even for C++... ;-)

By Fernando Rodriguez at Thu, 2004-10-21 14:12 | login or register to post comments