Whitespace delimiters suck - Seen Occam?

[Andrew Henshaw]

Richard Brodie wrote:
> 
> "Andrew Henshaw" <andrew.henshaw at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote in message
> news:388C760A.1E66C20 at gtri.gatech.edu...
> 
> > That's interesting.  Everyone here, who has used it for any
> > reasonably-sized project, has really liked it.  I've seen opposition
> > from programmer's who try it for a day and then immediately
> > abandon it, however.
> 
> You are probably right, in that the projects were relatively small,
> and programmers didn't stick to it for long enough.
> 
> > Have you tried the Windows version of Origami from Elcom (it adds several
> > niceties, but the default color scheme is horrible)?
> 
> Windows? Colours? Linux? We stopped using Occam in about '92,
> so the state of the art might have improved since then ;) I can see
> a folding editor would be better if you had a GUI to drive it from.

I don't have much call for Occam anymore, but I still use Origami for
just about every programming project.  It supports a lot of other
languages by default, and it can be set up to support most others.  It
only took a couple of minutes to set it up for Python (including 
keyword highlighting).