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From: ragerj@nucsrl.UUCP (John Rager)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 15:11:28 EDT
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>Punctuation or seperators (; , .) have long been a part of programming
>language design. Anyone who has programmed for even the shortest amount of
>will realize that these little demons are responsible for a large amount of
>possible errors, thus the question is why have them at all?

We had a long discussion about this topic quite recently. I move we not
repeat it again.

John Rager