The day after the first Wednesday of every month - was Re: London.pm Meeting - April 5th
Dirk Koopman
djk at tobit.co.uk
Thu Mar 29 19:44:45 BST 2007
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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?
Nope, To do with being sick of interminable arguments about "my bracing
style is better than yours" (even though the quote itself is self
evidently true :-) But then I still use K&R/Programming perl bracing
anyway...
<incoming>
<h1>duck!</h1>
</incoming>
Dirk
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