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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Comfy chair)
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Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 12:48:51 EDT
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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One thing that is easily forgotten is that when humans look at a
program listing we see indentation and spacing and all that.
Unfortunately the compiler only sees a single stream. If you think that
"any decent compiler should be able to error recovery in the absence of
delimiters", try reading your program on ticker tape. And no
backtracking, either.

	Ken