Whitespace delimiters suck

Wm. King wjk at wjk.mv.com
Sat Jan 22 15:30:02 EST 2000


Reminds me of Benjamin Franklin's famous quote:

"Thepenismightierthanthesword" .... white space becomes
kinda important... don't ya think!

Justus Pendleton wrote:

> > I thought they gotten rid of all such languages until I came across
> Python.
> > Good programming languages should be whitespace tolerant, and most of
> them
> > are.
>
> Haveyouevertriedtore adEng lishthatdoesn 'tuse whitespaceproperly?
>
> Most human languages aren't really whitespace tolerant (well, at least
> the ones I know :-).  When I was learning Japanese, one of the hardest
> things about reading it was the fact that they don't use whitespace to
> delineate words.
>
> How come now one is out there advocating that we "fix" English by
> removing the mandated whitespace?  :')
>
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