Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!news
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
Message-ID: <1991Mar02.200330.13408@convex.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 20:03:30 GMT
References: <21733@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> <1991Feb26.141339.22191@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Sender: news@convex.com (news access account)
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
Lines: 39
Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com

From the keyboard of cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson):
:In article <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:
:>
:>How can anyone stand to program in a language where whitespace matters
:>in this way?  Why should the status of my code depend on whitespace?
:>--
:Howcanyoustandtopostarticlesinalanguagewherewhitespacematters?

Don't be silly.  We don't want Fortran.  But these should all be
the same.

1) How can you stand to post articles in a language where white space matters?

2) How can you stand 		to post articles in a language 
       where white space matters?

3) How can you stand 		
   to post articles 
   in a language 
   where white space 
   matters?

4) How 
    can you stand 
    to post articles 
       in a language 
	   where white space 
   matters?

Separate tokens with white space, of course, but don't try to tell me
that space, tabs, and newlines are different, or that the indentation
should affect the meaning.

--tom
--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
 that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn

 Tom Christiansen                tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist