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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