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Mark Jackson
mjackson at wc.eso.mc.xerox.com
Tue May 4 09:18:49 EDT 1999
William Peterson <wpeterson at cfa.harvard.edu> writes:
> What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?
Probably:
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
become feasible for expressing local structure in the source
language.
- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto
Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974
See http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html.
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