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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
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Date: 26 Feb 91 00:11:47 GMT
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In article <3024@charon.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>Oh?  I've never heard anybody request the right to define their own
>string quotes or reserved words (for example) in a programming
>language.  

Then you haven't worked much in LISP or FORTH, have you?  Both of these
have functions for parsing strings (as well as other things).
       -- Darren

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