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Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue May 4 09:24:59 EDT 1999
William Peterson wrote:
> What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?
http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html
"We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which
are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so
that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might be-
come feasible for expressing local structure in the source
language."
-- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto State-
ments", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974
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