The day after the first Wednesday of every month - was Re: London.pm Meeting - April 5th

Nicholas Clark nick at ccl4.org
Thu Mar 29 19:07:07 BST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:45:47PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 08:38 +0200, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
> 
> >    If you want to use parentesis, code Lisp 
> 
> If you don't want to use parentheses, code COBOL

Or think in (reverse) polish notation? Or anything stack based (Forth?)

Presumably one could take inspiration from Python (a language for those
with a phobia of braces*) and design a language using whitespace indenting
levels to replace parentheses?

Nicholas Clark

* possibly due to traumatic early experience with dentists?


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