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From: john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger)
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Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
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Date: 5 Mar 91 22:58:49 GMT
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cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>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?

This is hardly a counterexample, since we can all read this without
the whitespace.  But actually, I don't have a problem with whitespace
to separate tokens, but rather a problem with a language in which a
newline produces a different result from a space, such as the example
given by someone else:

  x := a
       + b
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John Burger                                               john@mitre.org

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