Why not allow empty code blocks?

[BartC]

On 02/08/2016 18:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 02:56 am, BartC wrote:
>
>> (And I expect that next they will eliminate languages altogether. All
>> you need is some way of specifying a sequence of calls to library
>> functions and sprinkling around some control statements;
>
> That would be called "a language".

No, it wouldn't be given its own identity. And it probably couldn't be 
used without that specific tool. It would be more like a file format, if 
the details are even exposed when the format is proprietary.

A traditional language exists as text and can be stored as plain text.

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Bartc