LISP Rocks! (was: Re: Python Rocks! :-)

Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Wed Jan 19 23:54:04 EST 2000


[François Pinard]
> ...
> P.S. - SNOBOL was particularly uneasy to punch.  Multi-
> punches all the time.
> Do some remember? ;-)

Oh yes!  But typical SNOBOL4 programs were tiny compared to typical Pascal
programs, and at the time the latter was introduced, my school's keypunches
still lacked a semicolon key.  I have hated languages with semicolons ever
since <wink>.

semicolons-bad-whitespace-good-ly y'rs  - tim






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